Early Tuesday morning, almost the entire island of Puerto Rico was hit with a blackout, leaving more than a million people without power. Officials are warning it could take days to restore.

One of the first sitting senators to endorse Jimmy Carter's run for office in 1976 was a young upstart from Delaware named Joe Biden. We explore the relationship between the two men over the years.

The Constitution allows members of Congress to determine their pay -- but fear of political blowback for giving themselves a raise has resulted in no cost of living increases in nearly 15 years.

Kentucky is among several states that passed bans on street camping and it recently got a glimpse of how it works, in a video showing police giving a citation to a homeless woman going into labor.

The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic ...

More than 1.3 million people were plunged into darkness early Tuesday. Failure of an underground power line is believed to be ...

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President Biden's legacy at the end of his time in office is complicated by the fact that he stayed too long.

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Watching a huge ball descend down a pole in Times Square has been a beloved New Year's Eve tradition for over a century. Here ...

Here's what NPR's White House correspondents would ask Biden at a press conference as his presidency comes to a close.

The nation's biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. That's ...