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Many experts agree with an appeals court's decision last month that dreadlocks aren't a common racial characteristic. But left undecided: What's a common racial characteristic?

Confirmation hearings scheduled before Inauguration Day including Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos and Scott Pruitt, nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

People in poverty-stricken Clay County worry about what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin's and President-elect Trump's ambitions to overhaul Medicaid proceed.

On Wednesday, the Senate majority leader threw cold water on some of Trump's plans.

Many big city mayors have said that they will not comply with federal immigration orders that could lead to deportation. Steve Inskeep talks to LA Mayor Eric Garcetti about being a sanctuary city.

He proposed actions on building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, moving toward dismantling Obamacare and even promising a voter fraud investigation. So what can he get done — and not?

A wall would be expensive — up to $40 billion, according to one estimate. Experts say it's impractical, and a majority of Americans are actually against it. But it was a big Trump campaign promise.

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that 54 percent of people believe something untoward has gone on, including a quarter who believe the president has done something illegal in regards to Russia.

After two Asian-American actors say they quit CBS's Hawaii Five-O over unequal pay, NPR's Michel Martin talks with writer Rick Najera and podcast host Jeff Yang about Hollywood's racial wage gap.

It's too early to tell if this is an advantage or a disadvantage, but it is a fact: The field of Republican candidates for the 2018 Ohio gubernatorial...