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As the transition to a new administration approaches, what is the likely impact on a decidedly nervous State Department?

The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastic...

Hunter Biden no longer has to worry about going to prison.That's because his father President Joe Biden pardoned him with just weeks left in...

The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the availability o...

A white ex-police detective from Kansas City accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls was found dead Monday — the same day his f...

Syria's bloody civil war against the government of Bashar al-Assad started in 2011 but it had been in a stalemate for years. All that change...

President Biden makes his first and only trip to Africa in his presidency, as he travels to Cabo Verde and Angola.(Image credit: Ben Curtis)

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with legal expert and author Kim Wehle about President Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter. The president p...

The main U.N. agency in Gaza has stopped picking up aid from a key Israeli border crossing -- saying it's impossible to collect the aid beca...

The justices will hear arguments about the FDA's rejection of some e-cigarettes. High schoolers are at the center of the case.(Image credit:...

Syrian rebels have swept through parts of the country at lightning pace, taking control of the the second-largest city, Aleppo. But who are...

A new North Carolina law requires sheriffs to hold undocumented immigrants in jail for ICE to pick up. It's part of the dance state and fede...

The hearings come after years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters,(Image credit: Pete...

The court faces pushback over arrest warrants for Israeli officials, sexual harassment allegations against the court's chief prosecutor and...

President Biden pardoned his son, reversing a previous pledge and saying "it is clear that Hunter was treated differently" than others in th...

The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop a...

Some areas across the Great Lakes region have already received up to 3 feet of lake effect snow.(Image credit: John Normile)

A program in Allegan, Mich., teaches trades to high schoolers.

Immigration, school vouchers, and abortion will dominate the upcoming Texas legislative session.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza because of the t...

Protesters gathered across Georgia on Saturday night in a third straight night of demonstrations against the government's decision to suspen...

Frigid air was expected to move over the eastern third of the U.S. by Monday, while heavy snow was forecast to cause hazards in the Great La...

The report said the main responsibility lay with the workers' direct employers and the Qatari government, but noted that "a credible argumen...

Over a few days, rebel fighters in northern Syria have launched incursions into several major cities with little resistance from government...