After Republicans lost big in Tuesday's elections, adding pressure to end the government shutdown, President Trump pushed ...

Under court order to restart SNAP food aid, the Trump administration said it would provide 50% of benefits. But a policy ...

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, helps about 6 million U.S. households pay energy bills, buy fuel, ...

Tesla shareholders will vote Thursday on whether to give Elon Musk a pay package worth up to $1 trillion. Camila Flamiano Domonoske covers cars, energy and the future of mobility for NPR's Business ...

Electric bills are also going up because of increased power demand. For the first two decades of this century, demand for ...

Holiday travel can already be stressful. Here's how a prolonged government shutdown might make things even harder and whether ...

Wall Street leaders and billionaires spent big to defeat democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City's mayoral race. Now they have to figure out how to work with him.

Two cases involving ICE are in court in Chicago this week. In one, a judge ordered conditions at a detention facility be improved while a ruling is still expected in a case over agents' use of force.

The Supreme Court's justices appeared skeptical Wednesday of the Trump administration's argument that the president has the right to impose tariffs without congressional approval.

Millions of Americans rely on federal subsidies and programs to make ends meet. But the shutdown and other cuts have them looking elsewhere for help. Here's how residents in rural New York are coping.

NPR's A Martinez asks Amy Howe, co-founder of SCOTUSblog, for her takeaways from the arguments before the Supreme Court over whether President Trump has the authority to impose tariffs.

California's Proposition 50 redraws the state's congressional map to favor Democrats. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report what it might mean for mid-term elections.