Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

Less than a month after WETA lost the taxpayer grants it had received for 50+ years, the station is going public with its ...

Sunday marks day 33 of the government shutdown with no end in sight. Approximately 650,000 furloughed federal workers received fresh notices telling them to stay home without working and without pay, ...

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, as the government shutdown begins a new month, tens of millions of low-income Americans who ...

Former President Barack Obama will headline rallies Saturday for Democrats running for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, corralling voters ahead of elections that may signal the national mood 10 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he texted with President Donald Trump after his late night demand to change the Senate rules ...

In our news wrap Friday, a federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from requiring that voters prove their citizenship, the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has climbed to at least 50 ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including the government shutdown barreling toward the date when funding ...

Friday on the News Hour, the ongoing federal shutdown threatens critical funding for Head Start, which serves children and families nationwide. The civil war in Sudan escalates into a brutal new phase ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is more eager to talk about struggling soybean farmers than President Donald Trump’s attack on ...