Thursdays PBS News Hour welcomed back Brad Onishi (host of the podcast "Straight White American Jesus") to warn once again about scary Christian conservatism, this time encapsulated in Pete Hegseth, Donald Trumps nominee for Secretary of Defense, interviewed by the shows most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez. Onishi compared Hegseth to mass shooters and to white nationalists eager for ...

Momentum is building around legislation that could mean higher Social Security benefits for some Americans as Senate leadership tees up a vote for next week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) caught some senators by surprise this week when he took the first step to set up consideration of the Social Security Fairness Act, announcing...

College football is inherently defined by violence, even as it is celebrated by universities, media outlets and millions of American viewers.

For the first time in a decade, obesity in the U.S. is declining — and a new study suggests it’s because of wildly popular medications such as Ozempic.

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was injured on a trip to Luxembourg and has been admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said in a statement on Friday.

When Bank of America alerted financial regulators in 2020 to potentially suspicious payments from Leon Black, the billionaire investor, to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, the bank was following a routine practice.

Extreme weather is happening more frequently across the country, as we have seen this year with Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic impact on Asheville, North Carolina, November’s wildfires in New York and New Jersey and this month’s fast-spreading Malibu, California, fire. Nearly 20% of all Americans have had to evacuate their homes because of unexpected severe weather, acco...

PEN America has condemned the arrest of Reza Khandan, Iranian activist and husband of leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

A few theories about the seeming collapse in public morality.

The Godfather Part II still captures the paradoxes of America 50 years later.

Assad might very well still be in power, and Irans mullahs in a state of comfort, had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acceded to the constant hectoring about restraint coming from Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Russia’s war with Ukraine will enter its third year in just two months, and the continued conflict directly impacts the security of NATO, the U.S.-led defense alliance. The NATO chief sent out a warning on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Justice says North Koreans are sneaking into U.S. tech companies to steal technology, while getting paid. It’s offering a $5 million reward for anyone with information.

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company has reached a $650 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for its role in helping boost the sales of OxyContin, a highly addictive opioid, for Purdue Pharma, according to court documents filed in Virginia on Friday. The agreement allows the firm to avoid criminal prosecution if it […]

One in five children in the United States has obesity, and the United States has the shortest lifespan among developed nations. To discuss America’s health challenges, NTD spoke with Jerold Mande, CEO of Nourish Science and adjunct professor of nutrition at Harvard’s School of Public Health.  

Some Americans and others are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade

U.S. inflation saw another uptick in November as the Commerce Department recorded its highest rate since July. Are Americans feeling the pinch of price increases? And are they hopeful for relief during a second Trump Administration? NTD’s Sam Wang was out on the National Mall in Washington to hear from them.