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In the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS, the Qayyarah Airfield West is a key staging base run by Iraqi and U.S. forces. Ash Carter visited there Dec. 11 and awarded medals to eight Iraqi soldiers.

Opponents of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines say that President Trump's new executive memo is a disappointment. But it's one that they have been gearing up for.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas about the proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and the relationship between the intelligence community and the Trump administration.

The Central Asian nation looks increasingly shaky with an autocratic ruler, an Islamist insurgency, a sputtering economy and unstable neighbors.

Over the past half-century, advances in technology have forced a drop in deaths caused by technical lapses. And now, we count on technology to save us from our own errors. But we can do better.

Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of students in college. Many say they feel invisible, without access to elite campuses. One program helps them leverage their heritage and identity.

The singer and songwriter grew up under difficult circumstances in South Carolina. Today she uses her music, and the legacy of Southern black women's music, to come to terms with the past and present.

After being released last week, the augmented reality game is the most popular app in the world, landing people in odd places and weird, sometimes dangerous situations.

Residents of Kidlington awoke one morning to find hundreds of foreign tourists snapping photos on their front lawns. For six weeks, the visitors continued to come by the busload. Then they vanished.

The Albu Nimr tribe recently had some 600 members slaughtered by ISIS in western Iraq. The Sunni tribesmen say they're regrouping but need help, which the U.S. has now pledged.