Pope Francis appointed many cardinals from the Global South and, for the first time, fewer than half of voting cardinals who will choose the new pope are European. How will this influence the vote?

Journalist and author Ted Genoways follows the violent, unpredictable and hugely profitable world of tequila through the story of its most successful maker, Jose Cuervo, in his book "Tequila Wars." ...

The tiny east African country of Rwanda says its holding "early talks" with the Trump administraion about taking in deported migrants from the US.

Germany's parliament failed to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new chancellor in a first round of voting on Tuesday.

Republicans are considering selling off some federal lands to pay for President Trump's domestic agenda, which is reigniting a decades-old controversy in the West.

Germany's parliament is set to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new chancellor on Tuesday.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting an expanded list of Republican House seats in next year's midterms. NPR talks with Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state, who chairs the ...

An installation on a Ukrainian passenger train by American artist Barbara Kruger is the latest high-profile artwork placed in Ukraine. It's meant as a show of solidarity with people there during war.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

Even with President Trump's 90-day pause on global tariffs for most countries, many European winemakers no longer see the U.S. as a market they can count on.

We are saying goodbye to Skype. In 2009, the app had more than 400 million users, and made up 8% of the world's international calling minutes. Now Microsoft says it has shifted focus to its Teams app.

Thousands of college athletes are in limbo as the NCAA and lawyers scramble to reach a new deal after a judge put a major settlement on hold. At issue are reduced roster sizes that would have seen ...