It was a true holiday gift this week to see an opinion piece in The New York Times by Pope Francis. In a short essay adapted ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Lane, of the consortium Revolution 250, about why the Battle of Bunker Hill won't be reenacted at Bunker Hill to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., about the House GOP caucus and the Dec. 20 stopgap funding vote.

German officials say a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006 deliberately drove his car into a crowded outdoor Christmas market Friday.

Some Amazon drivers held small protests this week to highlight conditions they say need to be improved and urged other drivers to join the teamsters union.

The consumer financial watchdog says customers of the top three banks lost more than $870 million over seven years due to a ...

The third attempt to avert a shutdown comes as House Republicans have spent the week trying to balance President-elect Donald ...

Nickel Boys is one of the most thrillingly inventive literary adaptations our critic has seen in years, while The Brutalist ...

Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the ...

A French court found dozens of men guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot, whose then-husband repeatedly drugged her unconscious ...

President-elect Donald Trump and his newest top-lieutenant, Elon Musk, have sent Washington scrambling to avoid a government ...