UN peacekeepers in Lebanon face end of decades-old mission despite regular attacks by Israel breaking year-old ceasefire.

Myanmar's military is planning a general election this month, one critics call a sham that comes in the midst of a nearly five-year long civil war that's left thousands dead and millions displaced.

After a ceasefire that has lasted more than two months, the U.S. is pushing for a lasting peace in Gaza. Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed ...

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney, Australia, this week for the first funerals for the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting.

Santas in the U.S. are getting more diverse as families try to find a jolly fella who looks more like them.

Students in the San Francisco’s Unified School District have been calling for less plastic packaging in their lunches.

A group of interfaith protestors barricaded themselves outside of ICE’s San Francisco field office on Sansome Street on ...

FIFA said it would sell $60 tickets to the World Cup, including for the final — but only for supporters of qualified teams.

Hear Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize Winner and host of the Áccented podcast) in conversation with acclaimed author Ocean ...

As the legendary SOMA nightclub prepares to shut its doors forever a few members of the OASIS family share their memories, ...