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On Tuesday, President Obama will follow a tradition dating back to George Washington. Over the years, presidents have offered warnings about partisanship, praised balance of power and shared regrets.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Mary Beth Long, a former assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs, about efforts to evacuate U.S. citizens and others from Afghanistan.

After President Biden said another terrorist attack on the airport is "highly likely," the State Department warned Americans to leave the area.

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

The Canadian province, once staunchly Catholic, has become proudly secular, and its king cakes have morphed into more of a fun family tradition — while also taking on a tasty French flair.

When it comes to polls, Newt Gingrich is a strong frontrunner. New surveys in Iowa and South Carolina show him lapping the rest of the Republican presidential field and holding strong double digit leads. But when it comes to money, the essential for running an effective modern campaign, Gingrich is still not a top-tier candidate. He's working to fix that, however.

The kingdom replaced top military brass, opened armed forces jobs to women and promoted a woman to a senior Labor Ministry post in a series of rare steps in the ultraconservative kingdom.

The leaders of the intelligence community sat in the Oval Office with the president and urged him to walk back his criticism of a controversial surveillance law.

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a landmark decision by Colorado's top court that ruled him ineligible from appearing on that state's primary ballot.