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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera star in the true story of a bus driver and a schoolteacher who bring a bus full of children to safety during California’s devastating 2018 Camp Fire.

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 ...

Predicting what matters in fashion was once an elite sport, the province of those who attend those big runway shows in New York, Milan, London, and – right now – Paris, like the editors of influential ...

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 ...