NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sam Vigersky, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the humanitarian impacts of the war in Iran.

Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said in televised remarks Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route for a fifth of the world’s oil supply — should remain closed.

BEIJING — China's Foreign Ministry criticized a U.S. investigation opened this week into the trade practices of dozens of countries, calling it a "pretext for political manipulation." U.S. Trade ...

Security officers at Temple Israel had "engaged the threat" that apparently started with a vehicle ramming into the building, according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.

NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has ...

MIAMI — The Miami Heat led the Washington Wizards by 25 points with 2:56 left. The game was essentially over, the outcome ...

President Trump has been voicing his frustration with the Spanish government's opposition to the war in Iran. But far from backing down, Spain's prime minister is happy to walk into the spotlight.

The threat of Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil supply travels — is raising fresh fears about global oil prices amid the ...

The war with Iran stretches into a second week. Is the U.S. winning, and is President Trump looking for an off-ramp?

A six-day launch window opens on April 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lunar orbital mission would be the first time humans have returned to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability and availability through deregulation, expanding old programs and banning ...

A group of teenagers that formed a rock band in the 1960s never released their music until now. Here & Now ’s Peter O’Dowd learns more about how a new album from The Glass Cage came to light more than ...