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Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Lice is low down on threats to public health — they don't carry disease, and they don't jump or fly. But school systems and parents are still grappling with whether to keep kids with lice in class.

NPR asks economist Devashish Mitra of Syracuse University where he thinks India's economic and geopolitical relationships will go after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on Indian goods.

The Trump administration on Monday froze more than $2.2 billion in contracts and multiyear grants for Harvard after the university said it would defy government demands to change certain policies.

Stocks just had their worst week since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 after President Trump unveiled new tariffs. And the pain will likely get worse this week.

The latest jobs report shows some bright spots for Buncombe County in the long recovery from Hurricane Helene.

Propel makes a free app for people on food stamps. Now it's giving some of them $50 each, as some private companies, nonprofits, and individuals scramble to help.

Mecklenburg County voters on Tuesday voted yes on an increase in the sales tax to fund a nearly $20 billion transportation plan that area leaders have spent more than five years working to win approval for.

Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. They're also costing consumers, frustrating businesses and hurting the factories they're supposed to help.