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The fiscal plan "puts America first" by slashing funds from many (but not all) global health and development programs.

New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman's new novel, The Idiot, follows a young woman's first year at Harvard University, and how she finds love through email.

Washington spends millions on agriculture research. But most of that spending doesn’t go toward fruits, vegetables, what we actually eat. Plus: new safety concerns about Monsanto’s weed killer.

President Trump's executive orders on immigration and border security have Latinos and Muslims concerned. In Los Angeles, Latino Muslims are educating themselves about their rights and going public.

Vietnamese American photographer An-My Le is one of 63 artists selected for this year's Whitney Biennial. Her new work was shot in Louisiana.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, about how President Trump's speech against Muslims during the campaign has hurt him in his legal arguments for the travel ban.

It was supposed to be the third victory for populism, after Brexit and Donald Trump, but Geert Wilders' relatively poor showing in the Netherlands general election has created a speed bump in what some hoped would be a populist momentum.

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ruled on the Hobby Lobby case before it reached the high court. His concurrence argued religious freedom could extend even further than the Supreme Court ruled.

Lawmakers granted the Whanganui River the rights of legal representation on Wednesday. The vote caps over a century of struggle by the local Maori people, who see the waterway as a sacred ancestor.

Advocates on both sides of the aisle say the GOP health care bill will be bad for Texas because it will lead to more people without coverage and punish the state because it did not expand Medicaid.