The shootings were part of a wave of violence that erupted as the country plagued by gang violence swore in its new prime ...

Denzel Washington is retiring after his next few projects, he said in a recent interview. He is currently on a promo run for ...

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he will nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past day, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Brian Murray, of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, about President-elect Trump's promise to increase fossil fuel production.

A federal judge has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

Every year, millions of pounds of garbage pollute freshwater lakes across the U.S. In Minnesota, scuba divers took a deeper look at where all the underwater trash is coming from and how to prevent it.

Companies in China are fueling a "silver economy" by adapting to serve hundreds of millions of people over the age of 60.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Mary Lovely, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, about President-elect Trump's promise to hike tariffs on imports.

Utility companies have been sued to bankruptcy over downed power lines that caused deadly wildfires in Hawaii and California. A Colorado utility's power shutoff to prevent fire also caused problems.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Edward Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center about President-elect Trump's influence on Senate Republicans' selection of a new majority leader.

Human rights groups say there have been at least 1,000 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the past year. Hundreds have been driven from their homes.