Search results for

Many airports send their discarded french fries, burgers and Cinnabons to the landfill. But Charlotte Douglas International plans to transform that garbage into fertilizer for flower beds. All it needed was a couple of million red wiggler worms.

On his first trip to Asia, Defense Secretary Mark Esper advocated basing U.S. medium-range missiles on the ground in Asia. Finding a country that's willing to host them could be a tall order.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed the port of entry at San Ysidro on Sunday. The move came just hours after President Trump tweeted, "No crossings!"

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan's representative to the U.S., about the coronavirus, a possible bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

The balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, The Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said.

The State Department's decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an unsuccessful campaign to force her removal.

NPR's Noel King talks to former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson about the security failures that led to pro-Trump extremists breaching the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

Immigrants living in the United States without documentation have their eyes on this year's election. Their future may depend on it.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against Norfolk Southern claiming that the company's Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, violated the Clean Water Act.