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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi continues to express confidence she will be elected speaker of the House despite effort by small group of Democrats who say enough members want change to defeat her.

A bipartisan effort to ease some penalties for drug crimes and provide more services to people leaving prison appears to be in the works in Congress, but the deal hinges on support from the president.

As thousands of troops arrive to reinforce security at the U.S.-Mexico border, Arizona officials worry migrants will try to storm the border.

Migrant families arriving at the Southwest border earlier this year faced forced separations. Now the president plans to stop immigrants with troops, concertina wire, tighter asylum rules and threats of tent prisons.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Washington Post reporter Rosalind Helderman about Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker's past, including his involvement with a fraudulent patent marketing company.

Development of the first oil production facility in federal Arctic waters will take longer than planned. That's because warming temperatures are melting the sea ice needed to build it.

Doing business in China comes with major strings attached. This week, with the response to an NBA manager's tweet, it became evident that a few provocative words can cause those strings to tighten.

According to the report, the office failed to push out poorly performing senior officials, did not conduct accurate or unbiased investigations and may not have protected identities of whistleblowers.

President Trump's description of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was detailed and provocative. It was a departure from the typical U.S. protocols in such a moment.

The president's surprise announcement comes after Democrats invited him to defend himself against accusations that he tried to bribe a foreign country to help himself politically.