Germany's parliament failed to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new chancellor in a first round of voting on Tuesday.

The tiny east African country of Rwanda says its holding "early talks" with the Trump administraion about taking in deported migrants from the US.

Republicans are considering selling off some federal lands to pay for President Trump's domestic agenda, which is reigniting a decades-old controversy in the West.

Pope Francis appointed many cardinals from the Global South and, for the first time, fewer than half of voting cardinals who will choose the new pope are European. How will this influence the vote?

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting an expanded list of Republican House seats in next year's midterms. NPR talks with Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state, who chairs the ...

Journalist and author Ted Genoways follows the violent, unpredictable and hugely profitable world of tequila through the story of its most successful maker, Jose Cuervo, in his book "Tequila Wars." ...

An installation on a Ukrainian passenger train by American artist Barbara Kruger is the latest high-profile artwork placed in Ukraine. It's meant as a show of solidarity with people there during war.

Emmitsburg is home to the National Fire Academy, effectively the war college for U.S. firefighters. The Trump ...

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

Square root days happen only a few times in a century, and the man who brought the day fame is celebrating his sixth one.

Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of ...

Marco Rubio serving as both Secretary of State and national security adviser could be "ultimately disadvantageous" to ...