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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says his new two-year budget plan will include the state’s first personal income tax rate reduction since 1996.

Congress is racing to pass a funding measure to avert a government shutdown.

Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Bill Hayton of the U.K.-based policy institute Chatham House, about the political shakeup after Vietnam's president resigned amid a corruption scandal

The Food and Drug Administration may soon grant full approval to an Alzheimer's drug. When it does, Medicare will start more widely covering the costly drug — but hurdles to access remain.

A key House Democrat released a plan to increase taxes on corporations and top earners to help offset some of the cost of a plan for child care, community college and many other programs.

Global leaders are negotiating about how to cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. Scientists say every passing day, and every tenth of a degree, makes a big difference.

These are the first new Black Mirror episodes since before the pandemic. The show continues to be among the best anthology TV series ever made.

Prosecutors get rare seditious conspiracy conviction in Jan. 6 case. NATO foreign ministers meet on Ukraine. Republicans join Democrats on same-sex marriage bill; will they do the same on rail strike?

The average price of gasoline nationwide is expected to drop below $4 a gallon in the coming days as prices continue to fall from the record highs hit in June.