China has banned transnational adoption, ending more-than three decades during which more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad. Adoptees say they have conflicted feelings about the ban.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gordon Sundland, a Republican donor and former ambassador to the European Union during the Trump administration, about why he's again supporting the former president.

The Canadian government has expelled six diplomats in response to alleged criminal activities by Indian government agents. Canadian officials link the agents to homicides and acts of violence.

Jennifer Koh is shaking up the long-established chamber music program at the Kennedy Center. An example of that is her collaboration with pianist-composer Missy Mazzoli.

NPR's A Martinez talks to actor Stanley Tucci about his love of food -- and the connection between cooking, acting and directing.

For more than a century, the United States Postal Service has shipped baby birds through the mail. Breeders, hatcheries and customers blame postal slowdowns and delays for birds now dying in transit.

A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered ...

Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on down the state's ballot, right to a question on abortion rights.

Both Republicans and Democrats are trying to marshal Native American voters in Arizona, which could prove decisive to winning ...

Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, discovered she was receiving less pay than men who worked ...