Michael Kugelman is director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. This article is published as part of NPR's 2024 Year of Global Elections series. It has happened many ...

Raúl Allegre arrived in Washington state from Torreón, Coahuila, in 1977 as a high school foreign exchange student. The school's football coach immediately noticed the Mexican fútbolero, who had an ...

A pair of spacecraft have been launched on a mission to help scientists get a better understanding of the sun by creating artificial solar eclipses. Proba-3, which includes two satellites, launched ...

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time, by critics and historians. Its central character, Mama Rose, is the ultimate stage mother and has been catnip for some of the finest musical theater ...

This week, Superman like all wise people, trusted his dog, the National Film Registry got a little bigger and a Supreme Court justice made her Broadway debut. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour ...

Congress is in a familiar situation: on the brink of a government shutdown without a clear plan to avoid it. Federal workers that are designated 'essential' would stay on the job and face a delay in ...

MAGDEBURG, Germany — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what ...

BERLIN — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, leaving at least one person dead and injuring at least 50 others in what authorities ...

BERLIN — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, injuring an unknown number of people in what authorities say was a suspected attack. The ...

The Malaysian government plans to allow a renewed private search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished over a decade ago and remains one of the world's most puzzling aviation ...

After two failed attempts, and with just hours to go before a midnight deadline, House Republicans say they have agreed amongst themselves on a new proposal to fund the government — but multiple ...

The Senate voted 85-11 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government until March 14. The measure had overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers after days of chaos caused by the ...