What if you could set up some panels in your backyard or hang them off your balcony and start making a dent in your power bill? Organizations are trying to bring "balcony solar" to the U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

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.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

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The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: leave now voluntarily, or you’ll be detained and deported.

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Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

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Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that ...

Washington, D.C., residents express concerns over what Trump's crime crackdown could mean for them. And, Ford plans to invest ...