People in the Northern Mariana Islands – remote U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean – are preparing for Super Typhoon Bavi, ...

Women make up a miniscule 3% of construction workers in Kenya. But a nonprofit group is offering them a way to get into the ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after ...

President Trump lauded America's storied history on Saturday night in a speech marking the 250th anniversary of its ...

President Trump ushered in America's 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically ...

On Independence Day, NPR's Don Gonyea returns to the city where he started his career to reflect on the auto industry, the Great Migration and the people who built Detroit.

The shake-up is believed to be an effort to ensure the military's loyalty to the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.

Spread by parasitic worms that can infect via a splash of water, schistosomiasis causes debilitating symptoms. It hits kids ...

Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, was killed in an airstrike on Feb. 28 at the start of the U.S.-Israeli ...

NPR member station reporters across the U.S. asked people how they are thinking about their country on its semiquincentennial ...

Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this ...

You can tell the Fourth of July is around the corner when all the roadside fireworks stands pop up. Fireworks at the best of ...