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Pakistan's new National Assembly was sworn in to office Monday. It's the first session since opposition parties won last month's parliamentary elections in a landslide over allies of President Pervez Musharraf.

Deer are becoming a growing problem for agriculture in the South. They eat up valuable crops and there's little farmers can do to keep them out their fields.

Americans agree students should be prepared for school shootings, but a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds they differ in how to approach the issue.

A group of lawmakers investigating Britain's phone-hacking scandal have published a report on how the crisis was handled. The report could be detrimental to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and his son James. The investigation exposed cozy ties between media elites and politicians.

For months, the British have been holding a public inquiry into press ethics. The government set this up after a big outcry over the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The inquiry is shining a light into the secluded world of the people who run that ancient country, in particular, says NPR's Philip Reeves, the prime minister's social set.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left Brazil's presidency at the end of 2010 with a more than 80 percent approval rating. Since then, he's been convicted of corruption. But that hasn't dimmed his ambition. He may again seek the presidency, but a court ruling will determine how challenging that path might be.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó led mass protests Tuesday, demanding the right to take control as interim president. Amid deepening economic chaos, Nicolás Maduro clings to the presidency.

NPR's A Martinez talks to former federal prosecutor Harry Sandick about the legal implications of guilty pleas from Donald Trump's former allies in Georgia's criminal election interference case.

Israel says a ground invasion into Gaza is imminent. There are growing concerns among U.S. officials about what that invasion could look like, and the potential for the conflict to spread regionally.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Daniel Fried of the Atlantic Council, about what Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's testimony reveals about the backchannel diplomacy between the U.S. and Ukraine.

Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer faces renewed scrutiny over sexual misconduct and assault allegations after The Atlantic published years of detailed accusations on Wednesday.

Jerry Lewis, a comedic fixture on big screens and charity telethons for decades, has died at the age of 91. David Greene talks to Shawn Levy, author of King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis.

Owner Elon Musk exacerbated the crisis by cursing out firms that chose to leave X, and said the boycott may sink the company. We hear the perspective on that from advertising insiders.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, about her trip to the Gaza Strip.

Four Republican presidential primary candidates took the stage Wednesday night in Alabama. This was the last debate before the Iowa caucuses in January.

Facebook has announced changes to how the company shares data with third parties. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Bloomberg columnist Shira Ovide about what the changes include and how much they matter.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign a new bill that gives the state more power to criminalize undocumented migrants in the state.

While Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney argues that his opponents have no realistic shot at winning enough delegates to secure the nomination, the same could eventually be true for Romney if a four-way race continues. NPR takes a look at the latest delegate numbers.

If you're asking what "rizz" means, you're not alone. There's even a chance that you have rizz without actually knowing what it is.

Spotify Wrapped endures despite privacy concerns surrounding the data it collects from users. But experts say our continued excitement around the year-end aggregation is in our human nature.

More than 1,000 loggerhead nests were counted on Sanibel and Captiva islands. Research shows Sanibel is averaging about five times more loggerhead nests compared to the 1970s and ‘80s.

Israel military hasn't been transparent about what it's doing in Gaza, but satellite images and social media posts are providing some clues to its actions in the ground war in Gaza.

Inflation cooled last month, as falling gasoline prices helped to offset rising rents. News of a smaller-than-expected jump in the cost-of-living triggered a rally on Wall Street.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about her meeting with China's Vice Premier, and the state of U.S.-China relations ahead of President Biden's meeting with Xi Jinping.

It's been a year since President Biden and China's Xi Jinping met face to face. We look at the national security and economic issues on the line for Wednesday's meeting.