Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump unveiled more picks to serve in his Cabinet. A Republican-controlled Senate will consider these nominees early next year.

A U.N. report shows rates are rising despite efforts for more severe penalties for targeted murders of women. The majority of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner or a family member.

The climate conference ended with a controversial deal that calls for wealthy countries to provide their poorer neighbors with $300 billion annually to help them adapt to more extreme weather.

The head of the Arizona Office of Tourism resigned abruptly Friday amid questions of a conflict of interest in a $700,000 ...

Foreign ministers from the world's leading industrialized nations are meeting Monday, with a certain pressure to advance ...

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed ...

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United ...

A judge will decide Monday whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the ...

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced three medical doctors as his picks to lead the FDA, CDC and to serve as surgeon general. NPR's Pien Huang discusses his picks.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks retired U.S. naval officer Peter Rybski why the Coast Guard has fallen behind on producing icebreakers and what that means for U.S. influence in the Arctic.