China deployed ships and warplanes in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan Monday, simulating the sealing off of ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait.

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A ...

With only weeks to a divisive election it can be hard to talk politics. Polarization can damage our relationships and our ...

A Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli army training base killed four Israeli soldiers. The attack came shortly after the Pentagon announced it is sending Israel an advanced antimissile system.

We check in with Black voters who weren't excited about President Biden's campaign to see what they think of Vice President Harris on the trail.

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the ...

Internal documents from TikTok that were reviewed by NPR indicate that company executives knew about the harm the app could cause young people. We talk to a researcher about what that harm looks like.

A fire at a bio lab in Georgia recently is raising questions about whether a chemical that escaped and forced evacuations should face tougher regulations from the EPA.

Israel plans to respond after four Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Daniel Byman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies what form that could take.

Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving holiday in mid-October, and that's just one of many differences with its American counterpart.

Nearly a fifth of Utah public school students are Hispanic. An outreach effort to Spanish-speaking parents in one district has boosted their involvement, which now surpasses that of English speakers.

Indigenous People's Day is becoming a more widely recognized holiday around the country. Two educators share how they approach teaching people about the significance of the day.