Kat Lonsdorf

After several days of uncertainty and tension in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security announced it is launching an ICE operation in Illinois.

President Trump is dialing back his threats to Chicago, after posting on social media that the city is "about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." But tensions are still high.

A Mexican Independence Day parade went on as planned, despite fears of increased immigration enforcement from the Trump administration in Chicago this weekend. There were also some protests in Chicago, where the president has threatened federal intervention.

President Trump is ramping up threats to send the National Guard into several major cities despite a federal judge ruling that his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal.

President Trump has called on pharmaceutical companies to justify the success of drugs and vaccines used to fight COVID-19. Trump himself hailed the vaccines as a "modern-day miracle" back in 2020.

As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S. role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?

NPR reporters have uncovered some of the tensions within the Biden administration as the U.S. responded to Israel's war in Gaza.

The word "dude" is often associated with the '80s and '90s. But its origin is rooted much, much farther back in American history and it took a long and winding road to reach the coast of California.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and Kat Lonsdorf share how they reported on the aftermath of deadly flooding, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of the top experts on the subject, at a time the administration says security in the region is a priority. NPR talked to several members of the team who were fired, who say there's no one to replace them.