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The House of Lords gave final approval to a bill blocking Britain from leaving the European Union without first securing an exit agreement.

The country wants to shake its image as an illicit narco nation. Now it's already home to more than two dozen legit cannabis companies, with exports to Canada and the U.K.

Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have announced they're investigating Facebook for anti-competitive practices.

With many men dead in Syria's war, women find themselves becoming heads of households. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Muznah al-Jundi, who runs an education center in Idlib that helps women adjust.

President Trump says he has called off peace talks with the Taliban, just as the president says he was ready to meet with the Taliban and the president of Afghanistan at Camp David.

Moscow residents vote in city council elections today. Weeks of street protests failed to ensure that opposition candidates would be allowed to run.

Large-scale forest thinning in northern Arizona to prevent wildfires is behind schedule. But a new program is taking low-value logs and shipping them across the Pacific to markets in Asia.

RALEIGH — North Carolina's Historic Preservation Office has set up an online forum so local governments and residents can report damage to historic…

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker about the canceled U.S.-Taliban talks President Trump tweeted about on Saturday.

Thousands of Sneakerheads throng the nation's capital to attend Sneaker Con in search of some of the most popular and rare footwear in the industry. Organizers expect about 10,000 attendees.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to MIT graduate student Arwa Mboya, who had been demanding MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito resign after it was revealed he had financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

The latest book by the author of Outliers and The Tipping Point looks at miscommunication throughout history — and finds it's really hard to know whom to believe.

Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill on Monday after an extended summer recess. Debates on gun control, prescription drugs and trade are expected, but bipartisan cooperation on those are elusive.

An election remaining from the 2018 midterms will be decided Tuesday after a special vote is held in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, following an absentee ballot fraud scandal.

The new book, She Said, by two New York Times reporters, reveals the lengths to which Harvey Weinstein went to silence women who claimed sexual harassment, and how his allies looked the other way.

Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to push members of Parliament to grant him a snap election next month in order to break the Brexit deadlock.

A marine heat wave off the West Coast is causing ocean temperatures to rise from Alaska to California. Scientists say it looks a lot like the warm water mass they nicknamed the blob five years ago.

A federal lawsuit seeks to block the Food and Drug Administration from taking enforcement actions against a European doctor or her U.S.-based patients for prescribing or buying abortion pills online.

Purple sea urchins are devouring the kelp forest off California's coast. To help the forest survive, researchers are trying to make these urchins a delicacy on menus at seafood restaurants.

The House oversight committee is investigating increased Air Force use of an airport with an official partnership with President Trump's Turnberry golf resort, as ethics questions swirl.