Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ...

The threat comes as Israel launches a ground incursion against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israel killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in airstrikes last ...

This year, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, poet Jericho Brown and disability rights activist Alice Wong are among the recipients of ...

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 ...

As China marks 75 years of Communist rule, old notebooks and letters stored at Stanford University illuminate the shortcomings of one-party control.

LAS VEGAS — Walking out of a grocery store in a Latino neighborhood on the east side of the city, Flor Elena Fernandez says ...

Israel says it is using air force and artillery to support “limited” and “localized” ground raids. The offensive follows a wave of deadly explosions and two weeks of Israeli airstrikes.

The Justice Department's third-in-command talked about the department's pledge to fight hate crimes, and shared he was close ...

Claudia Sheinbaum is a 62-year old environmental scientist who left academia on a political trajectory that took her from a ...

The Israeli military pressed its ground incursion into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, calling the operations “limited ...

For the first time since 1996, both major parties have picked a veteran for vice president -- a fact that some veterans' ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Beirut-based security consultant and Hezbollah expert Nicholas Blanford about the Iran-backed militant group's next steps following the death of its leader.