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President Obama heads to Japan and Vietnam, two nations waiting for the U.S. to act on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the long-stalled multilateral trade pact.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rukmini Callimachi, who covers terrorism for The New York Times, about the curious silence on the part of terrorist groups following the EgyptAir crash.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Eric Fanning, secretary of the U.S. Army, who was recently confirmed as the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military branch.

Donald Trump addressed the National Rifle Association convention Friday. His past positions on guns have been far more liberal than the NRA.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox about his paper's poll that shows 9 out of 10 Native Americans aren't offended by the name of the Washington football team.

The women being monitored now include those who had positive lab tests but no symptoms, according to the CDC. Also affected are 122 women in U.S. territories, almost all in Puerto Rico.

Born and raised in Detroit, Dominique Morisseau has written three plays about her hometown. Her latest explores the lives of auto workers struggling to keep their jobs during the 2008 economic crisis.

At mosques across Egypt, worshippers prayed on Friday for those killed when an EgyptAir plane plunged into the Mediterranean a day earlier. The cause of the crash still isn't known.

Voters in Austria totally rejected the mainstream parties in the first round of presidential elections, so the two candidates in Sunday's runoff are from the political fringe, including one from the far right.

The Auschwitz museum has thousands of pieces of enameled kitchenware. In one mug, a carefully constructed false bottom successfully hid items from the Nazis.

After Paris and San Bernardino, reports of Islamophobia and attacks on mosques are on the rise, especially in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. One Muslim activist calls 2015 "a banner year for hatred."

In his Oval Office address, President Obama sought to calm a nation on edge because of terror. Did it work? And how is it reverberating on the 2016 campaign trail?

Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.

About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first time, the Trump administration stopped the payments due at the beginning of the month.

The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world's largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of el-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.

Trump said on social media that he wasn't happy with controllers who called out of work, and suggested a $10,000 bonus for those who didn't take any time off during the shutdown.

This Labor Day, workers in industries from airlines to hotels to universities are agitating for better wages and working conditions. Meanwhile, Americans' support for labor unions remains high.

The pop singer's 12th album focuses on her love life and grievances beyond the spotlight.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the six hostages killed by Hamas this week, was laid to rest in Israel today. Israeli's packed his funeral in a show of support to the hostages still held in Gaza, to the family, and to express anger at the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu at not doing more to secure their release.

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study shows how AI could help malevolent actors get the stuff anyway.