The missile exchange marked a major escalation in the already tense region. But Israel and Iran both say they will stop ...

Nearly every county in New Mexico faces a critical shortage of health care providers, according to state officials. Now, the ...

One school district outside Boston is turning the World Cup into a teachable moment, with elementary classes learning about different countries' languages, food and wildlife.

After President Trump called California's recent primary "rigged," a familiar playbook emerges that forecasts what the president's election attacks may look like moving toward November's midterms.

In the first papal address to the Spanish legislature, the American pope said a "moral renewal" was necessary in legislatures ...

Iran has agreed to halt attacks against Israel after the two countries traded fire over the weekend, temporarily breaking the ceasefire that’s held since April. Host Indira Lakshmanan checks in on the ...

The value of copper is rising, and thieves can make money by stripping it from phone poles, streetlights and electric vehicle chargers. But those thefts cost the rest of us.

The attack would be the first since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal ...

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Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why ...

The Forest Service is trying to shut down research hubs because it says it needs to live within its means. But the agency ...

New research from scientists at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary finds that some birds living in cities are changing their songs to compete with traffic and other urban noise.