World shares tumbled on Monday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunging more than 5%, after oil prices spiked at ...

A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to ...

Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.

A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR that Israel needs three more weeks to accomplish its goal of decimating Iran's military forces.

A federal judge has ruled that Kari Lake does not have legal standing to oversee the Voice of America and its parent agency, and nullified her actions, including mass layoffs.

War chokes the Strait of Hormuz, leaving hundreds of oil tankers and container ships stranded and raising alarms of a looming global energy shock and food shortages across the Gulf and beyond.

Can Europe keep relying on the U.S. as a partner in supporting human rights around the world? Michel Martin asks the E.U.'s special representative for human rights Kajsa Ollongren.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with retired Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward about the risk of the conflict with Iran turning into a long war.

Afghans and Pakistanis living in Iran flee US-Israeli strikes, making desperate journey through treacherous land borders.

Police say a device thrown during an anti-Muslim protest outside New York City's Gracie Mansion was an improvised explosive device. Federal investigators are now involved.

U.S. conflict grows, rumors that the U.S. have sought Kurdish support are met with a firm rebuke — as a senior Kurdistan Region leader tells NPR: the Kurds are not guns for hire.