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Minnesota's new state flag officially flew for the first time on Saturday. Some Minnesotans hate it, and some love it so much that they're getting a tattoo of it.

After Canada changed a law opening up citizenship opportunities, thousands of Americans are trying to become citizens of their northern neighbor. It's partly for political and personal reasons.

The Trump administration issued a new rule requiring migrants to seek protection in another country they travel through before asking for asylum in the U.S.

Keith Siegel is adjusting to life as a free man after being held hostage in Gaza for 484 days, his brother says. The American was released along with two other in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to meet President Trump, who might be changing U.S. policy on settlements, Jerusalem and Israel's adversary — Iran.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Washington Post reporter Adam Entous, who has been following the story.

Barbed wire shaped the American West, but it kills, injures and blocks migrating wildlife. Some ranchers are trying high-tech alternatives that could reduce the need for it.

Bad as it was, the flooding in Tulsa could have been much worse. Levees built in World War II held but only because of an around-the-clock effort to mend them. And this isn't just a Tulsa problem.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led an official day of mourning in Kyiv a day after a Russian cruise missile flattened an apartment building. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war.

In 1976, Republicans adopted an anti-abortion stance in their party platform. The GOP became a political vehicle for the movement, as a more vocal Christian Right began to rise.

A large blast rocked southern Beirut after Israel vowed to strike at Hezbollah for a rocket attack in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on the Lebanon Border.

President Biden said that the U.S. is committed to defend Taiwan in case of an attack by mainland China. China claims the island as its own, and has threatened to invade if it declares independence.

In a long awaited speech, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China the most serious long term challenge to the international order and a test for U.S. diplomacy.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy Institute, about the Democrats' proposal to cap the number of ICE detention beds.

Dr. Horatio Cabasares died from COVID-19 just over a year ago. His son, Hubert, remembers his father, who immigrated from the Philippines and made his mark as the only surgeon in a small Georgia town.

Memory chips (aka RAM) are in short supply, globally. Why and what does that mean for consumers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have reopened spillway gates at three dams along the Caloosahatchee River. The spillways were opened this week to restore the downstream flow of freshwater, which is necessary to counteract the tides pushing saltwater up the river

Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas' military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.

Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who served 30 years for spying for Israel, says he will run in the upcoming Israeli elections.

The AI model Claude Mythos was so powerful that Anthropic decided not to release it to the masses. Then the company put out a security tool to address software vulnerabilities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accused by former security officers of appointing loyalists to lead Israel's two main intelligences agencies, the Shin Bet and the Mossad.

President Trump is pushing Saudi Arabia and Qatar to normalize relations with Israel, as part of an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Experts call that unrealistic.

A senior State Department official faced tough questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday as he defended sweeping layoffs and the dismantling of the U.S.'s lead foreign aid agency.

About 100,000 people have been placed under evacuation orders due to historic flooding in the Skagit Valley, a densely populated agricultural hub north of Seattle, Washington.