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Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson, now with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the strained...

Right-wing Israeli lawmakers are holding a special conference on how to make President Trump's plan for the relocation of Palestinians out o...

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and...

The walkout, which reportedly took place with only about a half-hour advance notice, came before a broader series of preannounced strikes ac...

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was...

Carney, 59, will succeed Justin Trudeau, who announced in January that he would step down amid low approval ratings following a decade in of...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite community, which mad...

Iran's UN mission says its open to limited talks over "militarization" of its nuclear program(Image credit: AP)

The Holy See Press Office said the pontiff has shown "a good response to the therapies." He was hospitalized on Feb. 14 for a case of bronch...

An NPR investigation finds problems with the federal court system and a deep culture of fear about reporting judges for abusive behavior and...

A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Sec...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global te...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting st...

New Justice Department leaders say past enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is "the prototypical example" of what t...

Fast-moving brush fires fanned by high winds burned through a large swath of land on New York's Long Island on Saturday, prompting the evacu...

Some researchers say these recent attacks are examples of "nonideological" terrorism — the result of several antisocial, decentralized, onli...

Texas isn't best seen from behind the steering wheel, but through shades, wearing hiking shoes on a walking trail. Now a Texan is making big...

The 88-year-old pontiff is responding well to the treatment for double pneumonia and has shown a "gradual, slight improvement" in recent day...

Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a ga...

House Republicans released the text of a continuing resolution that would fund the government through Sept. 30. Now, passing it in a narrowl...

Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beij...

The District of Columbia, Maryland and 18 other states have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the reinstatement of tens of thousands...

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner...

The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for certain organi...