In a year-end interview, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks looked back on an unusually slow legislative session, the impacts of previously-passed data center laws and working with House Republicans in divided government.

The Michigan Legislature adjourned Thursday for the year, ending a 2025 session where a politically divided House and Senate often struggled to reach deals.The marathon final day saw roughly two dozen mostly mundane bills clear both chambers, capping a session on track to enact the fewest number of new laws in any year since Michigan became a state.

Michigan energy regulators conditionally approved a request Thursday to fast-track approval of contracts to power a planned data center near Ann Arbor.

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.

The comedian is scheduled to co-host his final show on Saturday with Wicked star Ariana Grande.

An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.

U.S. forces stopped a vessel off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Trump continues to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A federal judge ordered special elections after earlier ordering the state to redraw the electoral map used to select justices, concluding the current configuration dilutes the power of Black voters.

The attack at Australia's Bondi Beach earlier this week on people who were celebrating the first night of Hanukkah was horrific. Stories have emerged about those who died trying to stop the gunmen.

The online forum Reddit has proven to be a key source for investigators of high-profile crimes, including the fatal shootings at Brown University.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation about the state of the U.S. health system as we close out 2025 with no deal in Congress to extend Obamacare. subsidies.

It's a perennial holiday debate: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie? A Philadelphia theater group offers a live reading of the 1988 action classic just in time for the holidays.

The Department of Justice began releasing its files on Friday on the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Many documents, which include interview transcripts and call logs, have been heavily redacted.