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Ukraine's president sacked his top general and replaced him with an ally. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Christopher Miller of The Financial Times about what the shakeup signals for the war with Russia.

Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country's population at 10 million, early results showed.

The election of Mike Johnson to House speaker means two Louisianans hold two of the top spots in House leadership. That could mean issues important to the state could get more attention in Congress.

A team of President Trump's top aides, including the secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce departments, meet their Chinese counterparts for a fresh round of trade talks in London.

The UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official has told NPR that the lack of attention from world leaders to the war in Sudan is the "billion dollar question".

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell knows what he's doing: this movie is silly, scary, and over-the-top all at once.

The killing of a top Iranian scientist last week will likely complicate efforts to restart the Iran nuclear deal. Will Iran really throw out nuclear weapons inspectors?

After he was sworn in as the nation's 46th president, Joe Biden got to work signing a flurry of executive actions. Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic is a top priority for the new administration.

Biden has signed 15 executive actions on priorities including COVID-19, climate change, racial justice — and rolling back Trump rules.

While the White House instructed Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney not to comply with a subpoena to testify in the impeachment probe, a transcript was released of a top State Department aid's testimony.

Captain Underpants has once again topped the list of most-challenged books. Author Dav Pilkey says his tighty-whities-clad hero teaches kids a healthy lesson about questioning authority.

Top legal experts say Florida law’s restrictions on social media companies was clearly unconstitutional.

Two days of congressional testimony from the country's top military leaders has put the battle for that narrative on center stage.

The continuing toll of dead fish piling up on the city's shorelines has prompted St. Petersburg officials to ask the governor for help in combating red tide. That comes on top of a similar request by one of the top Democratic contenders for governor.

NASA should work toward a new space telescope that could view small planets around distant stars with the potential to host life, expert panel says

Four years after Ken Kesey's death, a restaurateur in Los Angeles has stepped forward in a serious bid to restore the author's famed bus "Further" -- the vehicle that carried the Merry Pranksters on their 1964 "acid test" trip across the country. Alex Chadwick talks to Kesey's son Zane about the legacy of the 1939 International Harvester and what it will take to restore it. It sat for years in a swampy area of Kesey's Oregon farm, rusting and covered with moss.

Nathan Chen wins gold in the men's figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics. He pulled off five quad jumps, and is the first U.S. man to win figure skating's top individual honor since 2010.

A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan's Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors fell on top of each other, officials said.

The International Olympic Committee has condemned the Indian police's treatment of the countries' top wrestlers, who accuse a ruling party lawmaker of sexual harassment.

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

TALLAHASSEE — House and Senate negotiators reached agreement Saturday on the major portions of a higher-education budget that will dramatically expand...

About a year ago, the journal Health Affairs published a study of the top 50 American hospitals with the highest cost markups, based on what the...

The Canary Islands depend on tourists. But lacking international visitors because of the pandemic, some hotels have been hosting new guests — migrants and refugees from Africa.

Top congressional Democrats continue to meet with top White House officials about the next coronavirus relief package. But they disagree on how to handle money for jobless aid, states, and schools.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about President Biden expected to announce soon his choices to fill the three openings on the Fed Reserve Board.