U.S. and Iranian envoys have held talks aimed at averting possible U.S. strikes on Iran.

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In the new animated film, "Arco," a time-traveling boy gets trapped in the year 2075 and must evade captors, robots and wildfires. NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer and director Ugo Bienvenu.

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

And now it's time for sports. SIMON: Winter Olympics, twilight of the quad god. But American women's hockey is a juggernaut. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin looks to bounce back, and an NBA All-Star ...

GREG DAVIES: A group of comics battling out to see who is the least worst at doing a thing. No one will learn anything from the next hour. So crack open a can and give in to the pointlessness. SIMON: ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio seeks to reassure European allies and a partial government shutdown hits the Department of Homeland Security.

Gus Van Sant's new film takes us back to a true story from the 1970s that echoes into today. February 8, 1977, an Indianapolis man named Tony Kiritsis takes Dick Hall hostage. Now Hall is a broker at ...

U.S. Central Command said that the transfer that began on Jan. 21 saw U.S. forces transporting more than 5,700 adult male IS suspects from detention facilities in Syria to Iraqi custody.