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The workers became trapped on Jan. 10 following an unexplained explosion at a gold mine in the eastern province of Shandong. One miner has a...

Years ago, the drug lord brought four hippos from Africa to his hideout in Colombia. Since then, they have escaped into the jungle and are r...

Protestors marched in cities all over Russia in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

President Biden will begin his first full week in the White House. Many of the executive orders he's been signing and will sign this week ar...

Dozens of people who took part in the January 6th insurrection had a military history. Officials have repeatedly pledged to root out extremi...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Cristina Beltran, professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, about the phenomenon of "...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel's United Arab Emirates peace deal sets a precedent: Israel need not cede captured land to the...

State GOP members passed resolutions at a meeting on Saturday to condemn three party leaders who they said failed to support President Trump...

The odds of winning the top prize were 1 in over 300 million.

Russian authorities warned of mass arrests as demonstrators marched in open defiance of the Kremlin and called on President Vladimir Putin t...

Vendors at a giant produce market south of Paris say sending their produce to post-Brexit Britain is an expensive bureaucratic nightmare. Br...

One year after start of the pandemic triggered a lockdown the Chinese city of Wuhan, life has largely returned to normal — at least, for som...

When Cemal Senturk was taken to a hospital in Turkey, his dog Boncuk proved he was truly man's best friend.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Houston Police Department's Chief Art Acevedo about what can be done to root out extremism from law enforcemen...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) about post-insurrection accountability of some of his Senate colleagues, and...

Iowa's decades-long lock on the nominating process has been under threat since last year's disastrous caucus, when results were delayed for...

The acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media fired the presidents and boards over three not-for-profit international networks who wer...

There are N95s, reserved for health workers. There are KN95s, which you can buy easily ... except that quality may vary. And now South Korea...

Corine Dehabey runs a group that helps resettle refugees in Toledo, Ohio. She says her organization is "hopeful" and "excited" about Biden's...

Canadian officials say they're disappointed that President Biden revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline permit — but they're also looking forward...

Washington state is partnering with Starbucks, Microsoft and Costco to get people COVID-19 vaccine shots faster. These companies know logist...

Fox News is doubling down on its opinion shows and firing or sidelining some journalists as it adjusts to the Biden era. NPR discusses what...

With mass COVID-19 vaccination efforts underway, pharmacies have a critical public health role. But limited supply and uneven state and fede...

Austin's near-unanimous confirmation came despite concerns raised on both sides of the aisle that he hadn't been out of uniform for the lega...

"For the first time in history, nuclear weapons are going to be illegal in international law," says Elayne Whyte, who oversaw the treaty's c...