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A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

The U.S. is on track to see more tornadoes this year than in 2024, which was the second-busiest tornado year on record.

The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation's first religious charter school. But it ...

With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from President Donald Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that's central to the GOP agenda.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is testifying at 10 a.m. EDT. Watch live here.

An emerging strategy from President Trump's Department of Justice is undoing Biden-era policies and pursuing some of the president's political adversaries. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Carrie Johnson, the justice correspondent at NPR.

The White House is expected to release a report about potential contributing factors of childhood diseases. It's leading to renewed questions about the "Make America Healthy Again" agenda championed by President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. ...

Ramaphosa responded that the clips were of small minority parties, not official government policy, and said South Africa is a "multi-party democracy... that allows people to express themselves."

He also repeated false claims that millions of refugees are entering the U.S. from other countries "totally unvetted."

The shift was a marked departure from previous FDA guidance, which recommended an annual COVID vaccine for everyone 6 months and older.