Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he supports the strikes on Iran "with some regret" as they represent an extreme ...

Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales has faced increasing pressure from his party to resign or drop out of his race after ...

Two American arms package sales to Taiwan have been delayed as President Trump prepares to visit China, raising questions about the United States' commitment to Taiwan.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — ...

The Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province are a marine biodiversity hotspot and a divers' paradise.

The Trump administration is holding back Medicaid funds to Minnesota, citing fraud. But experts point out Minnesota's fraud rates are far lower than the national average in Medicaid.

Federal employees have been losing their jobs after sting operations engineered by political provocateur James O'Keefe. Now some of them are fighting back in court.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it not with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones.

President Trump's controversial nominee to lead the nation's largest public lands agency faces an initial confirmation vote Wednesday as Democrats point to his past support to sell federal lands.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Susan Glasser, who writes the "Letters from Trump's Washington" column in The New Yorker, about the war on Iran and how its early days differ from historical norms.

Voters went to the polls Tuesday in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. The results could help determine control of Congress and how people feel about Democratic and Republican party leadership.

A court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church's local arm dissolved, after it bilked followers for decades. Ties between the church and Japan's ruling party became a political scandal.