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Rep. Elizabeth Furse, D-Oregon, founded and helped lead an institute on tribal government at Portland State University after leaving Congress.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with retired coal miner Ronnie Hipshire about a picture of his father that was used without permission by Russian trolls to promote then-candidate Donald Trump.

Titled America, it is a work of art by Italian Maurizio Cattelan that had been installed at England's Blenheim Palace. A 66-year-old man has been taken into custody.

At times combative, Derick Almena continued to defend himself under a second day of cross-examination in his criminal trial stemming from the Dec. 2, 2016 Oakland fire that killed 36 people.

Dozens of states, cities and other groups are trying to get a question about U.S. citizenship status removed from the 2020 census. Two cases in New York are already heading toward a potential trial.

Four months after Oakland Estuary spill, the agency has suffered another outage-caused sewage release — close to 100,000 gallons of sewage has spilled into a lagoon in Alameda.

Commissioner Mark Shull was joined by faith leaders Monday in an effort to apologize for Islamophobic and other bigoted remarks made on social media.

Two Ohio counties reached a deal Monday with the drug industry valued at about $260 million. Local officials say the money from drug makers and distributors is desperately needed to fight the crisis.

Closing arguments began in the New York sex crimes trial of former movie executive Harvey Weinstein, with attorney Donna Rotunno making the case for the defense.

After airing a piece featuring a federal worker who wasn't sure if he could get his son a birthday present, a number of NPR listeners wrote to us wanting to help.