In her first interview since leaving the State Department, Jessica Stern, who served as the US special envoy to advance LGBTQ ...

Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Only 60 villagers remain in the Spanish town of Libros. The town's name translates to the word “books” in English, and now, ...

WhatsApp, used by millions of people around the world, says its users were hacked by the Paragon Solutions spyware company.

Earlier this week, a bomb went off in a quiet Moscow suburb. A man named Armen Sargsyan was killed. He was the leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine and was a wanted man in ...

Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made clear that despite his musings about Gaza this week, “the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza.” But Americans ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

Whale song is more similar to human speech than previously thought. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have the details.

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills ...

American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the ...