Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the ...

An extreme winter storm is underway impacting two-thirds of the U.S. Starting Friday and expected to last through Monday, ...

A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks director Gus Van Sant about his new movie, "Dead Man's Wire," based on a true story of a 1977 kidnapping.

Analysts believe these purges aim to reform the military and ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Another commission ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Alex Horne and Greg Davies about the U.S. tour of their British show "Taskmaster," where comedians are assigned silly or pointless tasks.

Nonpartisan staffers told lawmakers this month that the way they spent billions of dollars in one-time federal funds given to ...

Dozens were killed and hundreds homes destroyed, according to the country's disaster management authority, in storms ...

An encounter with white separatists decades ago led to new deadly force policies for some federal law enforcement.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Ellie Levenson about her novel, "Room 706." During a hostage crisis in a London hotel, a woman reflects on her marriage -- and her longtime affair.

We all know yodeling, right? Alpine men and women singing across verdant valleys and snowcapped peaks, sometimes accompanied by a huge horn. NADJA RASS: (Vocalizing/yodeling).

When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when ...