The next stop in former President Jimmy Carter's six days of funeral services is Washington, D.C., where he will lie in state ...

McDonald's says it is changing some of its inclusion standards, becoming the latest large company to announce it is rolling ...

The White House says President Biden has now protected a total of 674 million acres of lands and waters — a record for any ...

A strong earthquake killed dozens of people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned "lies and misinformation" that he said are undermining U.K. democracy ...

The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul the city's police ...

Scholar and editor, Deborah G. Plant, shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life of Herod the Great." ...

Why was the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States split on allowing or blocking Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel? NPR's Michel Martin asks one of the committee's former advisers.

Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. McElroy has been a harsh critic of Donald Trump's immigration policies.

More and more former members of Colombia's armed forces are fighting and dying as mercenaries around the world.

Is ISIS having a resurgence? NPR's A Martinez talks to Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about how ISIS is adapting its tactics to survive.

Hear excerpts from a 2007 NPR interview with former President Jimmy Carter talking about the stark question he faced after failing to win reelection: what to do with the rest of his life.