Search results for

The decision comes after Republicans and Democrats on the House intelligence committee released dueling memos in February about surveillance of a onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser.

Many Haitians in the U.S. have been protected from deportation since a 2010 earthquake, but the DHS says Haiti has improved enough for their return. The NAACP says the decision is racially motivated.

The former South African president, who resigned his post last month under heavy pressure, now faces 16 counts — ranging from fraud to racketeering — for his role in an arms deal two decades ago.

"It is impossible to lead a happy life when long hours and overexertion become routine," President Moon Jae-in said recently. The country has one of the world's lowest birth rates.

That's according to a new analysis from Save the Children. Yemen's outbreak is the world's worst in a single year since records have been kept, according to Oxfam.

The plaintiffs include transgender people who are currently serving in the military and transgender people who wish to serve but are no longer able to do so because of the ban.

Hurricane Irma was the longest-lasting powerful hurricane or typhoon ever recorded, worldwide. It kept 185-mph winds for 37 hours — longer than any storm on record.

Pope Francis is in Myanmar where he voiced support for ethnic minorities, but did not mention the persecuted Muslim Rohingya by name. This, in comments to leader Aung San Suu Kyi, disappointed rights activists seeking support for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence.

The White House announced that Powell, who has played a key role in Middle East policy, will be leaving the administration early next year.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews I, Tonya. The film tells the story of Tonya Harding, whose controversial figure skating career was marked by her rivalry with her chief competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

Janel Hart didn't set out to become a chocolatier--she had studied fashion merchandising in college. Her life direction changed in 1998 when the business…

Brenda Fitzgerald, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned on Wednesday because of financial conflicts of interest. The chief public health official bought stocks in tobacco and health care companies after she started working at the agency.

Trevor DeForest, 35, of Maquoketa, Iowa, beat out competitors from 22 other states to win the National Grocery Association's Best Bagger competition — and $10,000 — in Las Vegas last week.

The country has 29 medals, including 11 gold, despite less-than-gold performances from their usual powerhouses.

According to a draft report seen by several news organizations, U.N. investigators found that the sanctions-busting shipments date back a decade.

A 21-year-old Israeli Arab who says he isn't Jewish but only conducting an "experiment" by wearing a skullcap took video of the attack last week in Berlin.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee left the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007, but in 2012, FBI agents searched his hotel room and found handwritten notes detailing the U.S. network of informants in China.

NPR has obtained details of the report, to be released Thursday, on the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger last October. The report identifies no single failure leading to their deaths.

On Thursday, the senator sent a scathing letter to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency she helped build.

Netflix is churning out comedy specials almost as fast as you can watch them — maybe faster. In the latest, John Mulaney tries to wrap his head around the state of the world.