NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser about the capital city under President Trump and the ...

In some parts of the U.S. drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts ...

Prolific South African playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, has died at the age of 92.

Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson, now with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the strained relationship between Canada and the U.S.

In Canada, Mark Carney won the Liberal Party's leadership contest, and will replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He's not fond of Trump suggesting that Canada become America's 51st state.

Mexico has been a target of threats of potential military action and of new tariffs since Trump took office. Mexico's president called for rally in Mexico City, and some 350,000 people showed up.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

There are some songs that are synonymous with - or are perhaps more famous than - the movies they accompany. Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with journalist Jan Camenzind Broomby about the thousands of people who are stuck in limbo after being caught in online scam centers in Myanmar but who can't return home.

In this game of Wild Card, writer Zadie Smith discusses the nature of regret.

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

It's the time of year when new lambs are born, and for some shepherds, the process raises difficult questions.