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Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen voted to end the shutdown without healthcare stipulations. Her daughter, congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen, shares why she disagrees with her mother's decision.

NPR's "It's Been a Minute" podcast explores the complexities of adults who wind up having to care for aging parents with whom they may have had a fraught or even abusive child relationship.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Adam Szubin, former head of U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, about the new U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.

NPR's Daniel Estrin discusses the latest with NPR international correspondent Carrie Kahn.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, about the political incentives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue fighting with Iran.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un rebalances ties between China and Russia, and gets fresh pledges of support from Beijing, while keeping his nuclear weapons off the agenda.

A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China's leader Xi Jinping.

It was a grand display of China's ambitions as thousands of goose-stepping soldiers marched through Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, as Chinese President Xi Jinping looked on from above.

In Mexico, September means chiles en nogada season. But one key ingredient, a candied barrel cactus called biznaga, is now illegal because it's vanishing in the wild.

The arrest last summer of Mexico's most elusive drug lord set off a bloody regional war, leaving more than 1,000 dead and more than 1,000 missing. NPR reports from the state of Sinaloa.