Pope Leo XIV is the first North American pontiff appointed to lead the Catholic Church. As a native Chicagoan, he’s been ...

At the same time President Trump wants to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse declining birth rates, his ...

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Thunderbolts* is unapologetically formulaic. And yet, Florence Pugh is terrific; the action is coherent; and the character ...

Her detention is one of the most high-profile cases in the Trump administration's targeting of international students in the U.S.

One advocate for a two-state solution granting freedom and independence to Palestine is Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the head of Realign for Palestine and a resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council.

Joseph Nye Jr. — one of the world’s leading thinkers on the nature of power and international relations — died this week at the age of 88.

The first American Pope was born and raised in the Chicago area, and Catholics there are elated with the election of Pope Leo XIV. WBEZ’s Anna Savchenko reports. This article was originally published ...

Representatives from the U.S. and China meet for pivotal trade talks this weekend — the first such meeting since President Trump returned to office and the two nations imposed steep tariffs in an ...

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the U.S., about the violent conflict between India and Pakistan.

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.