Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel on Wednesday conducted airstrikes in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital. The Israeli military ...

It's called parametric insurance, it offers protection for climate-related wage losses and it's gaining ground in India.

Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, ...

Scientists are finding ways to minimize the effects of aging on the brain. Here are some ways to keep it healthy.

Wimberley, Texas, was the site of a devastating flash flood on Memorial Day weekend in 2015. Now, 10 years later, the town ...

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President ...

In Colombia, drug gangs are waging a new kind of war — by air. Armed with cheap drones, they're targeting rivals in a ...

The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than ...

Seesawing tariffs and turbulent financial markets are playing out on social media feeds, impacting the multibillion-dollar influencer industry in what could be a new recession indicator.

The withdrawal accounts for nearly half of the soldiers sent to Los Angeles in June to suppress protests over the Trump ...

The Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Europe are working with NATO members to ship more Patriot missile systems to ...