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Rohit Chopra had led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2021. Consumer groups praised his leadership, while Republicans have frequently attacked the agency.

Benjamin Hall's family has passed down one of their ancestor's freedom papers for generations. The document tells a piece of this family's history, and a larger painful legacy of chattel slavery in the United States.

Without control of the White House or Congress, the new DNC chair, Minnesota's Ken Martin, will lead a Democratic Party that is still figuring out its future after a bruising election.

President Trump's first weeks in office included executive orders that aim to stop or roll back former President Biden's ambitious climate agenda and redirect the country's attention to fossil fuels.

While prices and the economy were top issues during the campaign, President Trump is making clear that other issues — most notably immigration — are his main focus at the start of his second term.

Marco Rubio heads to Latin America on his first trip as secretary of state, including Panama, where President Trump wants control of the canal.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

The Democratic and Republican candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat are finalized, a concert where the attendees are the band, and after 20 plus year absence, Detroit has a food co-op.

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and what neurons are responsible.

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country's military, has died at 81.