The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and the head of NATO, Mark Rutte, met on Friday in Palm Beach for talks on global security, ...

We look at the case against multi-millionaire Gautam Adani who along with several other executives, faces allegations that he attempted to bribe Indian officials to secure solar power contracts.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michele Steele of ESPN about the NWSL championship, Geno Auriemma's record-breaking night and a now-rare event in the NFL: playing in the snow.

Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai took the stand this week. He faces charges in connection with the 2019 anti-government protests in the region. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with his son, Sebastien Lai.

The seven states that share the Colorado River have a 2026 deadline for a new sharing agreement. The Biden administration this week encouraged them to hurry, in an apparent attempt to limit the ...

President-elect Trump plans to nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He's been on of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in the financial world.

We look at Matt Gaetz removing himself from his nomination as Attorney General as well as a few of the cabinet nominations that President-elect Donald Trump announced on Friday night.

The Trump administration nominee for secretary of defense calls women in combat roles a mistake. Critics fear it's yet another signal that policies that engage with a changing America could be on the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician Father John Misty — real name Josh Tillman — about his new album. Its title comes from a Sanskrit word, "Mahashmashana." ...

While swing states were going for Donald Trump, Wyoming was an already red state that saw its legislature move even further to the right — with the Freedom Caucus taking charge.