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The Justice Department lawyers defending the president's executive orders are struggling to answer questions and correct the record in front of judges.

Family clans in Gaza are being called on to help distribute aid to a starving population. Here's why it matters and how it could shape postwar security.

It's unclear how the issue of ownership of the Panama Canal became a talking point for President-elect Donald Trump this week, but the question has a long political history.

NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

Dutch schoolteacher Johan van Hulst saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. He died last week at 107.

A dam that is part of the unfinished Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower project — being built with the help of a South Korea company — collapsed on Monday, sending a wall of water downstream.

President Biden on Wednesday spoke to bringing the nation together in his first remarks as president of the United States.

The former Egyptian president has been moved from prison to a military hospital.

Herman Wallace was released from prison in Louisiana on Tuesday after more than 40 years in solitary confinement. A judge overturned his conviction on the grounds that Wallace had been denied a fair trial. Wallace died just three days later.

In an executive order, President Obama curbed the kind of equipment local police can acquire from the federal government. He also demanded more accountability in exchange for other equipment.