U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun has had his World Cup ban suspended by FIFA, making him free to play in the United States' ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

As America turns 250, voters from our Swing Shift project talk about the state of the country. Their views ranged from ...

Primm, Nev., a once-thriving casino town on the border with California, was on the verge of fading away for good. The family ...

An effort to repeal Washington state’s first income tax on high earners took a major step forward on Thursday.

The country's theocracy hopes to see millions flood the streets of the capital beginning Saturday in scenes reminiscent to ...