NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with labor historian Harley Shaiken about what President Trump's pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, tells us about how he's thinking about labor policy.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with researcher Vanda Felbab-Brown about why she thinks President Trump's proposed tariffs and designating cartels as terrorist organizations won't stop the opioid crisis.

After Germans voted on Sunday, the center-right Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz is likely to become Germany's next chancellor.

For decades, residents of Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ontario, across the river in Canada, have had close ties. A month into President Trump's second term, relations have deteriorated.

Some lawmakers and agencies diverged from an official Office of Personnel Management request for employees to document their work.

Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — ...

Psychedelics are gaining momentum as medicines to treat a variety of conditions such as addiction and PTSD, and New Mexico ...

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members ...

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires left a vast amount of toxic debris. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Tony Briscoe, environmental reporter at The Los Angeles Times, about where the cleanup stands.

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank ...

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