NPR's Leila Fadel talks to John Sopko, who served as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan under Obama, Trump and Biden, about the back-and-forth around bringing the Iran war to an end.

Indiana has recorded six cases of salmonella during a 27-state salmonella outbreak as of Friday. The Centers for Disease ...

Now, we know more today about an agreement between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump is under pressure to find a breakthrough with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, but it's proven elusive.

President Trump announced a breakthrough on his Gaza peace plan last week, but the logistics remain daunting.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks legal scholar Kim Wehle about the ramifications of President Trump's newest executive orders targeting birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration is proposing new standards for Head Start, the nation's early education program for low-income kids. States would have a lot more control, and that has advocates worried.

Extreme heat waves sweeping across East Asia have forced zoos in South Korea and Japan to implement emergency cooling measures.

Mediators say Iran and Oman are close to an agreement to partially reopen shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The US has ...

With the Gaza and Iran wars, the relationship between Israel and America is the most fraught in decades. Attitudes are changing. What do Americans and Israelis think of the other?

Israel is facing a substantial shortage in troop numbers as reservists, exhausted from war, are failing to turn up for duty. Experts say Israel's multiple war fronts are putting a huge mental, ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with legal analyst Elliot Williams about the latest turn in President Trump's battle over who destroyed the Reflecting Pool.