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As NATO opens its summit, NPR's Michel Martin talks with former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker about the current role of the alliance and expectations for the gathering in the Hague, against the backdrop of U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

We discuss the politics surrounding the war between Israel and Iran, the latest on the GOP's tax and spending bill, and the release of student protester Mahmoud Khalil.

The discovery of the Higgs boson will likely be hailed as the most important scientific discovery of 2012. But many ideas that change the world don't tend to spring from flashy moments of discovery. Our view of nature — and our technology — often evolve from a sequence of more subtle advances.

The incoming Congress is preparing to extend expiring portions of the 2017 tax cuts from the last Trump administration. Congressional bean counters say that will have little effect on economic growth.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

A two-year investigation concludes the social network's leaders made decisions that were "significant setbacks for civil rights."

President Trump has put a priority on getting sports running again after the coronavirus lockdown. But this idea is facing various logistics and safety challenges.

Millions of Americans are planning to travel in the coming days. Here's what a potential government shutdown could mean for flying, driving and more — and what you can do to prepare.

We look at how the possibility of the U.S. getting drawn into a wider conflict in the Middle East could affect the presidential race, as well as how the candidates are doing in swing states.

The future of Fox News — and the rest of the Murdoch media empire — is at stake in a trial this week in Reno, Nevada. Rupert Murdoch wants to change his will to consolidate his eldest son's power.