Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump administration's aid cuts but he keeps doing his job.

Recent studies show the U.S. is slipping further from democracy. And, the Trump administration plans to transfer federal student loans from the Education Department to the Treasury Department.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

President Trump's Board of Peace has quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all of its weapons to ensure Gaza's reconstruction.

Israel and Iran continue to exchange airstrikes with a focus on energy infrastructure. President Trump says Israel acted alone in striking a key gas field and better not do it again.

How might attacks on gas fields in the Middle East affect global energy markets? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Ira Joseph, a gas analyst at Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy.

Cuba is preparing to receive its first shipment of Russian oil this year, just days after the government announced it was ...

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media ...

The vote by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members are supporters of the Republican president, clears the way for the U.S. Mint to begin production on the coin, whose size and denomination ...

The latest strikes come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel would "hold off on future ...

Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate — erase it, rebuild it, or remember what happened inside.

As war in the Middle East escalates, communities across the U.S. ponder how to mark Persian New Year's Day, or Nowruz.