Iran's Assembly of Experts has defied President Trump by appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father as supreme leader.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the longtime ruler who was killed in a U.S.–Israeli strike at the start of the war. The choice suggests Iran’s leadership is staying on the same hard-line path even as ...

A new podcast from Lost Women of Science tells the story of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who invented nonreflective glass while working at General Electric, but who is often forgotten.

Prices of Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, have surged past $100 a barrel, as traffic is nearly halted through the Strait of Hormuz, off Iran, which carries about 20% of the world's oil ...

The Justice Department published more than 1,000 new pages to the public database on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday. More than a dozen are related to allegations that ...

Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd talks with longtime journalist and senior analyst at the International Crisis Group Phil Gunson about what life is like in Venezuela two months after President Nicolás Maduro ...

For a century, California's Russian River has been a haven for the LGBTQ+ community. But the health of the river and the surrounding area is suffering the effects of climate change. KQED's Ezra David ...

Monday marks 10 days of the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was named as Iran's next supreme leader, after his father was killed in ...

Republican-led states across the country are leading a resurgence in state takeovers of school districts. Chalkbeat tracked at least 21 state takeovers in the past three years. Lily Altavena, a ...

An Iranian doctor who crossed into Turkey last week describes a harrowing journey to the border. She's been treating civilians wounded in the U.S. and Israeli bombardment of Tehran. Many of their ...

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Jill Schlesinger, a CBS News business analyst and host of "Jill on Money," about rising gas prices and what you can do to protect yourself financially if you are ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for a person who went missing after a commercial fishing vessel has overturned and sank off Cape Cod.