Politics comes at you fast, so if you’re making election law changes based on short-term interests, you might end up screwing yourself,” Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg told Radio IQ.

Texas Republicans want to redraw the state's congressional districts to gain an advantage in next year's election. U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., says Democrats must counter or become complicit.

The catastrophic floods along the Guadalupe River killed at least 135 people. Survivors are still trying to make sense of ...

A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, ...

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says efforts to save the fish in Virginia and North Carolina have been successful.

This summer, thousands of Virginians have taken part in protests – carrying signs and chanting. In Charlottesville, about a dozen women are doing something more dramatic, taking their theatrical ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is spending about nine times as much money on digital ads and emails as her opponent in the ...

The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

The towns voted to stop adding fluoride to their water supply, citing cost savings between $10,000 and $20,000 each year.

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the ...