The most recent Texas Legislature handed Elon Musk or his companies' representatives and lobbyists some big political wins, including 10 new laws that could benefit his growing business footprint.

Republicans made concessions for Alaska to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski to cast the deciding vote approving the GOP's sweeping tax and spending bill. Do her constituents think she got a good deal?

President Trump indicated that he may send an additional Patriot missile system to help Ukraine defend against the continuing barrage of Russian drones and missiles.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

In the aftermath of the deadly floods, Texas lawmakers are reassessing a bill they killed weeks ago to beef up emergency alert systems and vowing to have more in place by the next camping season.

Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

Filmmaker Celine Song isn't religious, but that doesn't stop her from seeing certain dead insects as signs in her life and treating a good meal like prayer.

The diocese is the first in the national to issue a special dispensation because of fears over immigration detentions.

"I thought my mom was going to die in front of me," said Taylor Bergmann, a 19-year-old who fought to save the people in his ...

Mottley's latest novel follows three young women as they navigate pregnancy and motherhood in a small town in Florida. She ...

Former Kerr County commissioner Tom Moser advocated for a siren warning system about a decade ago. He believes sirens could ...