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A new era in the Medicaid program will begin Friday when the state eliminates a long-standing policy about paying health-care bills that accumulate...

The board of a South Florida college is appealing a judge's ruling temporarily blocking officials from giving away a parcel of prime Miami real estate so it can be used for President Donald Trump's future presidential library.

The Tiny Desk Contest is NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist.

Dockworkers are demanding 77% in raises, among other things. Their union says they'll remain on strike until their demands are met.

Israel's government could decide to seize the last remaining areas of Gaza not already under Israeli military control.

There's a rare moment of joy as Palestinians celebrate their national soccer team's win at the Asian Cup, which sends them to the knockout stage.

President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony will feel unlike any other. Security is always a paramount concern, but it's been taken to unheard of levels this time.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

At least 430 drones and 18 missiles were used in the overnight attack, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must allow UN aid into Gaza and allow them to operate without interference. But Israel has rejected the non-binding opinion.

The plaintiffs argue that by not effectively tackling climate change, their government is violating its citizens' human rights.

American Eric Lu is the newest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland.

Italian candy giant Ferrero offered the American breakfast company a $3.1 billion deal too sweet to pass up.

Britain's government announced plans Monday to overhaul its asylum laws. Among the changes: making refugee status temporary and seizing high-value assets from asylum seekers.

In the era of social distancing, Italians in Florence have revived the custom of serving wine through pint-size windows in centuries-old buildings.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, director of the Department of Social Inclusion at the Organization of American States, about the state of Venezuelan migration this year.

Amy Dickinson, author of the syndicated advice column "Ask Amy," writes about the strong women in her life in her new memoir, The Mighty Queens of Freeville. The youngest in her family, Dickinson says she's "the plankton at the end of the food chain and the advice flows down."

Commentator Clancy Sigal was a sergeant in the American army of occupation in Germany, the only Jew in his unit. He remembers vividly his visit to the Nuremberg Trials.

Hurricane Ike, expected to make landfall in the U.S. this week, has already caused havoc in Cuba and the Caribbean. In Haiti, at least 58 people have been killed. The port city of Gonaives, hit hard last week by Tropical Storm Hanna, has been flooded again, and aid agencies are having trouble delivering supplies.

As winter nears, we look for ways to be warm and comfortable. One of the best ways to do that, says food writer Nigella Lawson, is to indulge in rich, tasty foods that some might call guilty pleasures. For instance: Why not make French toast that tastes like a doughnut?

The Senate parliamentarian informed lawmakers that a plan to gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 does not fit the complicated rules that govern budget bills in the Senate.

Everyone thought they were lost, but Jason Burt has found his grandfather's WWII Army Band recordings. It is the only known live music recordings near a battlefield.

The House passed legislation Thursday to pause the refugee resettlement program. The legislation includes new requirements for the government agencies that are screening Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

Clashes between police and Occupy Wall Street protesters in Oakland, Calif., made news this week. But the violence has less to do with the Occupy movement than with the long history of law enforcement troubles in that city.

In Selma, Ala., the reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scaled down because of COVID-19. It was also the first without civil rights icon John Lewis who died last year.