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A Senate committee Monday began moving forward with a proposal aimed at preventing unhoused people from sleeping on public property.

Some 250 years after Americans ruined a lot of British tea in Boston Harbor, a U.S. chemist's salty tip for the perfect cup has prompted an intervention from the U.S. Embassy in London.

Representatives will meet in Bangkok on Friday to discuss the refugee crisis. The migrants are mainly members of Myanmar's Muslim minority Rohingya community and economic migrants from Bangladesh.

A doping ruling Monday cleared the way for the International Olympic Committee to award U.S. athletes their first-ever team gold medal in figure skating for their performance in Beijing in 2022.

Three Tacoma police officers have been acquitted in the killing of Manuel Ellis, an unarmed black man whose death got renewed attention after the killing of George Floyd.

Florida legislators backtracked on a bill that would have made recess time optional for kindergarten through 5th grade.

The White House's latest tenant invited over Architectural Digest magazine for a rare and personal look at his version of the Oval Office.

The burning of Qurans by the U.S. military in Afghanistan has led to days of rioting by Muslims who say it was a desecration of their holy book and an affront to Islam. Many faiths prescribe specific rituals for disposing of their sacred texts.

The three deaths in Melbourne this week mark at least 108 since Brightline began operations in July 2017.

Between 2003 and 2022, the amount of time American men spend face-to-face socializing has fallen 30%. For teenagers, it's fallen 45%.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, a key Republican congressman who has spearheaded House pushback against the Chinese government, announced Saturday that he won't run for a fifth term.

On Sunday night in Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium, Usher hurried through a medley of many of his biggest hits and proved yet again why he's the current King of R&B.

Two students who attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., have taken their own lives in recent days. The school was the site of a 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 students.

After a history of supporting abortion rights, President Trump has become an unlikely champion of the anti-abortion-rights movement.

Ahead of the first U.S. presidential debate this election season, the United Kingdom has witnessed its final leadership debate between the two candidates for prime minister. The election is July 4.

Daily life in France has been severely disrupted by a nationwide protest against the government's plan to rationalize the country's pension system.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter about his state's settlement against Purdue Pharma, the maker of the powerful opioid OxyContin.

The Supreme Court is now holding hearings over a teleconference, making the audio publicly available. Jerry Goldman, the founder of the Oyez Project, offers some guidance on how to listen to it.

The announcement follows the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who had been in power for 15 years. Thousands of protesters had defied a military curfew and stormed her official residence.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the Secret Service, an agency of the DHS.

One school in Indiana let 18 year olds skip class Tuesday morning in order to get a chance to vote for the first time. Their first ballot was cast in the presidential election.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has popular support but he's criticized by the right wing of his party. He's being challenged by a candidate who has bucked authority throughout his political career.

Kenya’s president is in China, where he’s negotiated more infrastructure loans. Back home there’s growing anger about Kenya's growing foreign debt of more than $80 billion, much of it owed to China.

The United Kingdom’s competition watchdog is investigating whether Ticketmaster treated customers unfairly when selling tickets to the upcoming Oasis reunion tour.

Rick Scott became wealthy as a lawyer and health care industry executive before entering politics. Now running for reelection, he lamented that his brother had a “tough life” and says it all began with marijuana.