Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for ...

After arriving on Friday, Iran's Abbas Araghchi has left Islamabad, prompting President Trump to announce that his envoys ...

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Tom Papa, special guest Father James Martin and panelists Josh ...

Iran's Abbas Araghchi has left Islamabad after arriving Friday, after the White House confirmed Steve Witkoff and Jared ...

Yousafzai talks about life before and after being shot by a Taliban gunman. Maureen Corrigan reviews three gutsy new novels.

Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated ...

Fine art photographer Nancy Breslin joins NPR's Scott Simon in studio to celebrate Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to author Mark Helprin about Helprin's latest book Elegy in Blue.

Two runners in this week's Boston Marathon stopped to help a racer who had collapsed just short of the finish line. NPR's ...

Many of the people being caught up in Trump's ongoing mass deportation campaign are immigrants who've spent decades living in the U.S. Some deported Mexicans are staying in the border city of Tijuana.

Fossil research shows that an enormous "kraken-like" octopus stalked the seas during the Cretaceous period, competing with large apex predators.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Alan Eyre, former U.S. diplomat and fellow at the Middle East Institute, about the status of talks to end the war in Iran.