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More than a third of U.S. states now support the idea of making daylight saving time permanent. It's already in effect for about eight months of the year.

Next term the Supreme Court will take up a voting case involving the "independent state legislature" theory. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to New York University law professor Melissa Murray about the case.

Early this week, the leaders of Afghanistan declared that women could not attend university. Now there are fears the any education for girls is in jeopardy as some female teachers are sent home.

The 50th anniversary of the Roe V. Wade decision is Jan. 22. NPR's podcast Throughline examines the debate about abortion, which wasn't always controversial. (Story aired on ATC on June 6, 2022.)

With two months to go before the adjournment of Illinois’ spring legislative session, Gov. JB Pritzker’s state budgeting task may have gotten easier Tuesday.

Polls, races to watch and vote counting: here's what to expect in the 2022 midterm elections.

German authorities say they expect more arrests as they investigate an alleged plot to overthrow the government that led to dozens of arrests Wednesday across the country.

Two more candidates got in on the Republican side Monday, including Ben Carson, who is black, and Carly Fiorina. It's the most diverse GOP field anyone can remember. But will it make a difference?

The decision reversed decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.