The Trump administration has hit farmers hard by shattering their export markets with trade wars, gutting USAID, squeezing the farm labor market, and demonizing oil seed crops and a farm herbicide.

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

Russia continues to pound Ukraine’s power grid as the winter sinks in on Christmas Day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also told reporters he’s open to pulling troops back from the east of ...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order in Powers v. McDonough, which orders the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to build thousands of units of housing for homeless, disabled ...

A powerful winter storm is drenching California on Christmas Day, leading to widespread floods, debris flows and evacuation warnings.

A North Carolina woman left her front yard Christmas tree half-decorated after immigration agents questioned men helping her. The unfinished tree stands as a symbol of the immigration crackdown.

The traffickers who transport cocaine to the U.S. from Colombia in high-speed boats can make up to $100,000 a day.

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Still looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? A new poll finds that most people find cash or gift cards an acceptable holiday gift.

President Trump announced he wants to build a new “Trump class” of battleships, called the “Golden Fleet,” and he said he will help design them. He also warned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro not ...

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.