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NPR's A Martinez asks Republican strategist Brendan Buck about GOP leadership efforts to move a massive tax cut and spending package through the House and to the president's desk.

House Republicans cleared a final procedural hurdle early Thursday and are now one vote away from passing President Trump's ...

NPR speaks with Palestinian American author and poet Hala Alyan {HAHL-uh ahl-YAHN} about her new memoir, "I'll Tell You When I'm Home," in which she shares the experience of motherhood via surrogacy.

Iran's government is detaining anyone they believe gathered and shared intelligence with Israel used to strike key military sites and kill top generals and nuclear scientists during last month's war.

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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Linda Jones, co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions, about the potential impact of President Trump's tax and spending bill on her food bank and community.

Canadians on Campobello Island can't get to the rest of their country without going through the U.S. It's been that way for decades. New political tensions have some in the small community worried.

In March, the Supreme Court upheld Biden-era restrictions on build-it-yourself gun kits. But gun rights groups are still hoping the regulation will be swept away.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Penn., about the budget and tax reconciliation process in the House and how Democrats might capitalize on it. Leila Fadel is a national ...

Budget analysts say the GOP tax cut and spending bill would add trillions to the government's debt over the next 10 years. Interest on the debt already costs taxpayers about $1 trillion per year.

The Trump administration says it plans to appeal a federal court ruling blocking the president's attempt to stop asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying Trump had overstepped his authority.