NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with labor historian Harley Shaiken about what President Trump's pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, tells us about how he's thinking about labor policy.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with researcher Vanda Felbab-Brown about why she thinks President Trump's proposed tariffs and designating cartels as terrorist organizations won't stop the opioid crisis.

After Germans voted on Sunday, the center-right Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz is likely to become Germany's next chancellor.

For decades, residents of Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ontario, across the river in Canada, have had close ties. A month into President Trump's second term, relations have deteriorated.

Some lawmakers and agencies diverged from an official Office of Personnel Management request for employees to document their work.

Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — ...

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military ...

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The advice helped him when his wife was sick with breast cancer. And now 20 years later, he still finds it's still invaluable ...

Pope Francis, in critical condition with a complicated lung infection, rested well during a peaceful night following a ...