The list includes the first woman to serve as chief of staff. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author and reporter Annie Karnie about how President-elect Donald Trump may engage women for prominent roles.

The creators behind the viral TikTok account @lifeonfilm.27 give film cameras to strangers all over the world. In September, they handed one to one of the most powerful men in the world.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

The SS United States, a record-breaking American ocean liner from the 1950s, will take its final voyage from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico this week.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday ...

The incident follows a string of other recent deadly shootings surrounding homecoming events at schools in Southern states.

A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have ...

Bobby Allison, whose life was full of tragedy even as he became one of the most celebrated NASCAR drivers of all time, died ...

Congress returns this week. Republicans are hopeful they will maintain their House majority in the next Congress. In the Senate, Republicans will choose the next majority leader.

Chicago may soon become the largest city in the northern hemisphere without an intercity bus terminal as Greyhound's downtown station is threatened.

Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton supporters gathered at her alma mater hoping to celebrate the election of first female U.S.

The lessons of history about second-term presidents and second-term Republicans in particular are not just the stuff of ...