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China's President Hu Jintao has sworn in a new leader for Hong Kong amid large public protests. The island is marking the 15th anniversary of its return to Chinese sovereignty at a time when mistrust toward China is at its highest level since Hong Kong's handover in 1997.

Former President Donald Trump, who is leading in the latest polls of likely Florida voters, delivered an array of remarks touching on a wide range of topics.

A surge in people "dating" chatbots, less oversharing on social media and Gen Alpha creating slang. Here's what experts predict the internet might bring us in 2024.

Bundle up and prepare: People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, a meteorologist says.

The special NPR series Body Electric examines how technology is affecting our posture. You can follow along with the series at npr.org/bodyelectric or on the TED Radio Hour podcast feed.

Federal agencies are sending out sample contract agreements to their employees in what appears to be an effort to alleviate doubts. But some of the language differs from the original offer.

The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with a series of duties on U.S. products, responding to the Trump administration rise in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.

Football is underway and already fans are being treated to some great games courtesy of some unexpected players: rookie quarterbacks. It's not often so many rookie QBs make such an immediate impact.

President-elect Trump has tapped Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to lead what he's calling the "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE. Still, only Congress can create a new federal agency.

Staff at the key cybersecurity agency were initially excluded from government efforts to leave their jobs, but then on Wednesday they were given deferred resignation offers with just hours to decide.

New reports show that the U.S. military effort to provide aid to Gaza with a floating pier became a desperate race against time — and led to one soldier's death.

After a couple extremely slow years, more inventory is finally hitting the market this spring. But buyers might be put off by high prices and an unsteady economy.

Large-animal vets ensure the health of cows, pigs and horses, but they're also the first line of defense against diseases that can spread from animals to humans — so a shortage leaves producers, and global markets, vulnerable to devastating outbreaks.

After the attack on the Capitol, Democrats insisted democracy was on the ballot. The thread between election deniers and Trump-backed candidates is strong, and it didn't work out for all of them.

We look at where things stand with the 2 million federal workers weighing the Trump administrations offer to resign; massive cuts at USAID and how the Democrats are responding to these developments.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava late Tuesday acknowledged that Gov. Ron DeSantis had the power to buy a county-owned airport in the Everglades to build an immigration detention center, but said she has “significant concerns” about the project.

A Thursday commission vote authorizing a new land-use designation will kick off a far-reaching program to bring the city’s zoning code more in line with county rules that encourage taller, denser buildings up to one mile from fixed-rail stations such as Metrorail.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of the lower courts to curtail the power of the president. We look at the court's end-of-term blockbuster decisions, as well as their implications.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced the end of fact-checking on his social media platforms. Industry watchers say it's another sign Silicon Valley is trying to get in President-elect Trump's good graces.

Researchers have discovered a Mayan site hidden deep in the jungle on the Yucatan Peninsula thought to have been built over a thousand years ago.