Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to a decade behind bars after it ruled in a landmark legal ...

Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized travel with his 1957 guidebook Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, has died at 95, his daughter ...

The U.S. has some of the toughest environmental laws in the world and has been content to let other countries mine, and buy ...

Donald Trump has promised to slash federal spending massively with help from Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. NPR's Michel Martin asks fiscal watcher Maya MacGuineas whether their plans are realistic.

Nearly 44,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire in more than a year of war, according to the ministry of health there. A recent Israeli forces operation took place in central Gaza.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit ...

President-elect Trump has picked Sean Duffy, a Fox Business host and former Republican congressman from Wisconsin, to head ...

A Ukrainian soldier and his wife describe how 1,000 days of war have changed their lives and their country. Joanna Kakissis is a foreign correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she reports ...

In Nevada, federal land managers have approved a new lithium mine that could supply 37,000 new electric cars a year. But a new lawsuit and the reelection of Donald Trump pose challenges.