President Trump ran on a pledge to end "forever wars," so what comes next is pivotal. Here are five things to watch.

The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential ...

After 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center, Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has been released on ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Middle East analyst, author, negotiator and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior fellow ...

From his home in Massachusetts, Soheil Fathi said news of American strikes in Iran, where he was born and raised, was ...

Several tour groups say they are expanding efforts to spotlight Black, queer and other communities traditionally overlooked in historical accounts.

The power to declare war resides solely with Congress. Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to attack Iran is unauthorized and unconstitutional. In doing so, the President has exposed our military and ...

A new collection of essays by New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts, provides rich research and material ...

The Karen Read murder trial divided the town of Canton after the body of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe was found outside ...

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination.

A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s legal authority to ...