The ruling Conservative Party will choose a new leader this week. The winner will inherit a full-blown international crisis, which erupted Friday after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker.
The rules block recipients of federal grants from referring patients for abortion. The Trump administration says groups working in “good faith” will have until Aug. 19 to provide written assurance.
A Bulgarian cybersecurity expert was arrested by police after being accused of involvement in the hack of millions of records from the nation’s tax agency.
Lowry’s win marked the first Open played in Northern Ireland since 1951. He became the second player from south of the border to lift the Claret Jug.
In the 1980s, there were less than two dozen California Condors left. Today, more than 500 exist in the world, thanks to the efforts of conservationists.
A group of attackers wearing masks and white shirts swung fists, wielded clubs and other objects at a crowd of mostly pro-democracy demonstrators at a train station in the district of Yuen Long.
Some 4 million people, many Muslim and impoverished, were excluded from a 2018 official register of citizens. Photographer CK Vijayakumar visited Assam to learn more about the challenges they face.
Parents of young kids pick up their phones an average of almost 70 times a day — often to escape a stressful parenting moment. Here’s how to stop using your phone as a pacifier, for you or your kids.
Feelings seem to spread contagiously between friends, partners or groups. Why are we so easily influenced by one another’s emotions? A new video from Invisibilia explains what’s going on.
Ever since astronaut John Glenn’s first bite of applesauce in 1962, eating in space has been a challenge. NPR talks to former NASA food scientists to see how cosmic cuisine has evolved over the years.
The American entertainer has been detained in Sweden since July 3, after an altercation in Stockholm. Celebrities, Twitter and a GoFundMe petition are clamoring for him to be let go.
After the president disparaged four congresswomen, some Jewish Americans defend Trump’s comments, criticizing the lawmakers as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. Others are appalled by Trump’s remarks.
After a series of pilots, the administration says it will roll out the updated version by December 2020 or early 2021.
Iran took over the British-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and says it and its crew will remain in an Iranian port during a probe of an accident that Iran says led to the seizure.
“With stone carving, we give life to an edifice and perpetuate history. We’re also creating a link with the past and transmitting values that are important to conserve in society,” one student says.
The PetroCaribe program provided fuel to Venezuela’s neighbors on long-term credit to spur economic growth. What has happened now that Venezuela is in free fall?
The Biden plan released this week is an update of the Affordable Care Act with controversial differences. Among them: a “public option” that covers abortion, and subsidized premiums for more people.
The president’s reelection campaign is selling reusable and recycled straws in its 2020 online store, because, it says, “Liberal paper straws don’t work.”
The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren’t targeted as cavity culprits.
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Spy world veteran Shelby Pierson will attempt to centralize election security efforts across the intelligence community with soon-to-be-designated agency leads.
Ship-tracking data show the U.K. tanker Stena Impero was traveling to Saudi Arabia when it veered toward Iran’s coast. British media report the government warns shipping to stay out of the area.
Harold Martin committed the massive theft of government documents over decades, storing files in his car and Maryland home. “My methods were wrong, illegal and highly questionable,” Martin said.
The aid group Mercy Corps believes that the new Libra currency could help funnel aid to the poor. But critics wonder why the charity has teamed up with a controversial company.
More than 3,100 are moving out of the Bureau of Prisons system on Friday and the Justice Department is making other changes to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.
Former students at the Dalton School in Manhattan remember Epstein as a young, charismatic teacher. More than four decades later, Epstein stands accused of sexually abusing dozens of underaged girls.
Scientists at four leading universities have seen their soybean experiments injured by a stealthy vandal: drifting fumes from a weedkiller called dicamba, now popular among farmers.
President Trump says the U.S. Navy ship shot an Iranian drone down. That statement conflicts with those of Pentagon officials who say the Boxer used electronic jamming to take it down.
President Trump has used white grievance to fuel his candidacy since he first came onto the political scene. So what he’s doing now with four congresswomen of color is hardly a surprise.
The case centers on the deadly days after the city of Srebrenica fell on July 11, 1995, when some 25,000 refugees sought safety with Dutch U.N. peacekeepers.
Tensions have beset the U.S.-Pakistan relationship for years. The planned July 22 meeting between President Trump and Imran Khan comes as the U.S. tries to finalize Afghanistan peace negotiations.
The country supergroup will release its self-titled debut on Sept. 6. Hear the first single, “Redesigning Women.”
Motion pictures went to the moon long before Apollo 11 did, and they keep going back. Critic Bob Mondello reflects on the many films, from 1902 to today, that have made the journey.
The musical superstar continues to challenge herself while elevating global artists for an album inspired by the new remake of The Lion King, in theaters now.
Iran would commit to permanent nuclear inspections in exchange for a permanent lifting of U.S. imposed-sanctions, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR.
San Diego Comic-Con kicked off Thursday, with more than 130,000 attendees expected. Big draws of the day were Lin-Manuel Miranda and Arnold Schwarzenegger — and a surprise appearance from Tom Cruise.
