Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on down the state's ballot, right to a question on abortion rights.

A non profit has trained more than 160,000 veterans as poll workers, in the face of growing threats and skepticism about the security of elections.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered ...

Supporters of death row inmate Robert Roberson say stae is about to execute an innocent man. Roberson was convicted of shaking his daughter to death. "Shaken baby syndrome" is largely discredited.

NASA has just launched a mission to investigate a far-off world that’s full of water. It’s going to Europa, a moon of Jupiter that's made of lots of ice that covers a huge ocean.

Helene knocked out power across the Western North Carolina mountains where the terrain makes it difficult to fix the lines. It raises the question about power grid resiliency in light of climate ...

Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, discovered she was receiving less pay than men who worked ...

Both Republicans and Democrats are trying to marshal Native American voters in Arizona, which could prove decisive to winning ...

In a follow-up to our story about rural Democrats, we ask four Republicans in Kalamazoo what it's like to be a red drop in a ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly ...

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their ...