President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Gen Z-led protests are making waves from Africa to Asia, and while the issues spurring them are different, the symbol they’re using is the same: a grinning skull and ...

Syria is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country’s longtime autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive in December.

President Trump hailed an apparent reduction in Israeli military strikes on Gaza, as U.S. negotiators travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian, Qatari and Hamas negotiators in a bid to end the two-year ...

PRAGUE — Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš won a parliamentary election Saturday in a a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and ...

After warning Congress for months about premium spikes, the leader of the country’s insurance commissioners — a Republican from North Dakota — says he’s hopeful there could be a last minute fix.

The most extraordinary thing about Chinese director Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film (2024) is how ordinary it is, considering the attention it has garnered globally. In semi-documentary style, the ...

TOKYO — Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the ...

Once the province of elite fashion editors and forecasters, the art of figuring out what’s likely to fly off future racks is ...

Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S.

National parks across the country face conflicting demands and uncertainty as a result of the ongoing federal funding dispute.

Jane Goodall, the influential primatologist and conservationist, died this week at the age of 91. NPR’s Scott Simon reflects on her legacy and love for chimpanzees.