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Jose Rodrigues came to the United States from Angola as a teenager and joined the Marines out of high school. He served in Iraq twice, and he's one of 26,000 service members whose citizenship has been expedited because of his military service. He says that taking the oath of citizenship didn't make him feel more American -- he's considered himself an American for a long time.

A joint memorial service was held Sunday for three wildland firefighters who died last week along the Utah-Colorado border.

The laws governing Medicare don't provide coverage for self-administered diagnostic tests, including rapid antigen tests. Here's how older adults can get free tests anyway.

Unless Congress and the White House reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling, real people could suffer, from service members to Social Security recipients to would-be homebuyers.

Much of the federal government shut down Wednesday after Congress failed to reach a deal to keep government programs and services running before the midnight deadline.

The Internet is full of music, but not all of it generates income for composers and songwriters. Services that specialize in "micro-licensing" are helping to fix that.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Hunter Walker, who wrote a Rolling Stone article on Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, the Trump supporters now cooperating with the Jan. 6 House panel.

Manfred Karg's 19-year-old son, a convert to Islam, is one of at least 60 Germans killed fighting alongside ISIS militants. Karg says efforts to stop the flow to Syria and Iraq are taking too long.

President Biden's meeting with the pope is a fairly recent tradition for U.S. presidents. His meeting will mark the 31st time a U.S. president has met with the leader of the Catholic Church.

Gasoline prices hit record highs last week, so politicians in both parties proposed suspending state and federal gas taxes. But some warn such tax "holidays" may cut funding for needed road repairs.