The January midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people, is the topic of a ...

As he winds down his podcast after 16 years, Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These conversations are very real ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, but a rate cut is possible in September. President Trump has been urging the central bank to lower borrowing costs.

Three months after militants killed 26 tourists at a scenic meadow in the Himalayas, India said on Tuesday that its security forces had found and killed three gunmen behind the massacre.

Millions of people in the world today face starvation in Gaza and in other parts of the world, from Sudan to Yemen. What ...

A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons.

This week Ukraine's parliament will take up legislation introduced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that aims to restore the independence of two of the country's anti-corruption agencies, just a week ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific.

The U.K. says it plans to recognize a Palestinian state, as global pressure builds on Israel to let more aid into Gaza, where a UN-backed panel warns famine is already unfolding.

The gunman accused of walking into a Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan and killing four people suspected he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE — a degenerative brain disease often ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Middle East expert Jon Alterman about a United Nations conference to advance a two-state solution as a way toward peace between Israel and Palestinians.

We don't just mean literary sorcery by which words summon worlds for readers, but also literal, honest-to-goodness magic: ...