A rare Israeli airstrike on central Beirut killed Hezbollah's chief spokesman on Sunday, an official with the militant group ...

A powerful typhoon forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern ...

Amid Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, an animal group in Beirut rescued a baby lion cub and sent it to safety.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center's Janet Holtzblatt about funding for the Internal Revenue Service.

With controversial nominations and threats to push their appointments through, Donald Trump is already pushing Constitutional norms.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with New York City Council Member Chi Ossé about his FARE act, which shifts the responsibility for broker fees from the tenant to the landlord in many cases.

What happens when you bring back water to farm land? In Germany, the government is working on a climate solution that would have farmland turned back into wetlands to reduce carbon emissions.

Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men.

Arguments began last week in a lawsuit challenging Idaho's abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country. We'll hear from some of the plaintiffs and the state attorney.

Kids in the kitchen: chaos or bliss? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and her children join Mark Bittman to try out some kid-friendly ...

What will President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House mean for US - China relations? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Ryan Hass, a China expert at the Brookings Institution.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Christopher Gallant, whose stage name is simply "Gallant," about career fits and starts, science, and his new R'n'B album, "Zinc." ...