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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sofia Nelson, a former close friend of vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance, about how he's changed from the person they knew for more than a decade.

In 2018, the Trump administration made good on its promises to unwind long-standing U.S. commitments to guarantee global security and prosperity, writes Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institution.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among 6 nations invited Thursday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies. United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia are also set to join the bloc from 2024.

Twenty years ago, NPR alerted staff members that they would soon have access to a new form of communication: "A collection of computer networks that is connected around the world."

The CIA is often involved behind the scenes in the run-up to a presidential summit. But U.S. and Korean spy chiefs are playing an unusually prominent role this time around.

We check in with an epidemiologist and a virologist about the latest on COVID-19 in the U.S.

This election season, the student debt crisis has finally gotten the attention it deserves. A look at how we got here, who has profited and just a few of the lives affected.

After a year and a half of being COVID-cautious, a fully vaccinated health journalist thought he could finally travel and socialize this summer. The resulting illness didn't feel "mild" at all.

As the U.N. Security Council debates Iraq, Britain proposes to give Saddam Hussein 10 more days to disarm — or face war. France quickly rejects the deadline, while Russia leans toward the French anti-war position. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara, NPR's Lawrence Sheets and Britain's U.N. Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock.

With a fragile truce holding in south Lebanon, Israel is preparing to pull out more of its forces out as the Lebanese Army and U.N. troops prepare to move south. But it's still not clear how quickly an expanded U.N. force will be in place.