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The fourteenth amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?

It has been a tumultuous week at the country's consumer finance watchdog, as the Trump administration looks to decimate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

President Biden makes his first and only trip to Africa in his presidency, as he travels to Cabo Verde and Angola.

As Ruidoso, N.M., starts recovering from a deadly wildfire, people who survived the state's largest fire two years ago say FEMA still isn't giving them what they need.

With no help from the federal government, states are trying to regulate recreational marijuana. California's Department of Cannabis Control works to keep contaminants out of joints, vapes and edibles.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to NBC's Jason Benetti about his new gig as lead play by play announcer for Sunday Night Baseball.

Families of victims of two Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking a judge to reject a plea deal with the plane maker. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to attorney Paul Cassell, who represents 15 of the families.

Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.

Former Mesa County, Colo., Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing unauthorized access to voting materials.

When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the woman who had lobbied for Thanksgiving for years.

As Israel marked one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, the war is expanding. In Gaza and Lebanon, Monday was a day of airstrikes and evacuation orders.

Vice President Harris remembered the victims of the attack by planting a memorial tree at her residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., while former President Trump visited a sacred site for Hasidic Jews in Queens, N.Y.