A trailblazer of gender pay equity, Lilly Ledbetter has died. Her legal fight against a former employer brought attention to the issue, and paved the way for the Fair Pay Act of 2009.

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.

Experts say smugglers are treating migrants more harshly and bringing them on paths that could be more dangerous in extreme ...

Our army needs a lot of them,” says Anton, a 35-year-old software developer, who declined to give his last name to avoid ...

Canada expelled India’s top diplomat in the country and five others over last year's killing of a Sikh activist in British ...

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.

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.

Destroying the roads would be in line with Kim Jong Un's push to cut off ties with South Korea and abandon the decades-long ...

One hundred individual family members and survivors are notifying the U.S. government of their intent to pursue claims ...

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.

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

The lawsuits filed Monday accuse the hip-hop mogul of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.