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The rise and fall of a one-time Caracas bus driver to a mentee of the late Hugo Chávez to an autocrat overthrown and extracted by the United States.

After over a year of negotiations with major video game companies over issues like AI, video game performers in the union SAG-AFTRA are on strike.

Leila Fadel asks the president of international law foundation Global Rights Compliance about accusations that the U.S. and Israel broke international law with initial strikes in Iran, and that Iran targeted civilians in response.

Officials are still searching for the gunman who opened fire at Brown University Saturday, killing two people and injuring nine. Police are releasing a man who was held as a person of interest.

President Trump says he will meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Tuesday setting up a big day of foreign policy.

Some lawmakers are questioning conditions at immigration detention centers for people with a disability, after one man's ordeal in Georgia went public.

Ukraine has imposed sanctions on the creators of the popular Russian cartoon series for allegedly spreading "pro-Russia narratives" and posing a threat to national security.

The House returns Monday for one week before heading back home. At the top of the agenda is a bill to extend government funding past the midterm elections.

Emma Straub's new novel, American Fantasy, delves into the world of aging boy bands, their aging fandom and what they each get from one another.

After Democrats flipped two seats in surprising legislative elections, Florida political insiders weigh whether Republican should risk redistricting later this month to win more House seats.

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping wrap up their two-day summit. What did we learn beyond the pageantry?

A drought is driving a hunger crisis in Somalia. UNICEF says global funding cuts have hampered its ability to respond.

Port-au-Prince was a canyon of crushed concrete and horrified screams as Jean Samson Edouard ran panicked and barefoot through the capital’s Carrefour...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with a man who is concerned about CTE, and with neuroscientist Bob Stern, who explains why more cases of CTE may emerge decades after plastic helmets became commonplace.

The U.S. death toll has doubled since May. Some experts predict it could nearly double again before 2020 ends. "We are experiencing a tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering," one researcher says.

Florida might consider imposing work requirements on adults enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, a move some critics contend would be “cruel” for...

The House of Future Memory has been onstage since June 13, and will run through July 13.

Still recovering from devastating July flash flooding, the Kerrville community gathered for the Texas tradition of high school football Friday night. As Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports, the Tivy Antler varsity football team took on Del Rio in their season opener at Kerrville's Antler Stadium, the same location that was a volunteer hub after the July 4th flooding and where a recent massive memorial was held.

Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they now draw adventurous visitors to rare wildlife, sacred sites and vast views.

Inflation fell in June, as a drop in gasoline prices more than offset the modest monthly rise in rent. This could help clear the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in September.

"Time Traveler," Nnenna Freelon's first new album in more than a decade, is a passionate expression of love enduring as she grieves the loss of her husband and other family members.

After half a century, The Exorcist is still considered one of the scariest movies ever made. But one priest says it's a movie deeply concerned with faith, and responding to evil.

In sports news, Major League Baseball has a trade deadline coming up, and a new report is out on CTE in former football players. NPR's Don Gonyea talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant.

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

The Border Patrol recorded nearly 1.7 million apprehensions last year, eclipsing the record set in 2000. Still, the number of migrants crossing illegally is likely far below the all-time high.