The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?

Friday morning, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV led his first public mass as head of the Catholic Church: ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the U.S., about the violent conflict between India and Pakistan.

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.

A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.

The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission works to protect Americans from dangerous products and issuing recalls and warnings.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback ...

Vice President Vance said the fighting between India and Pakistan was "fundamentally none of our business." Experts say the U ...