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A former Paris bureau chief for Time, Tom Sancton is the perfect chronicler of l'affaire Bettencourt — the juicy swirl of scandal, bribery and dark doings that fascinated France for a decade.

DNA analysis of an ancient burial ground shows that today's Lebanese are genetic descendants of the biblical Canaanites. That has some Lebanese re-evaluating their fractured identity.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to David Albright at the Institute for Science and International Security about the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt lavished money and gifts on her friend, photographer François-Marie Banier. Then, her daughter sparked a decade of scandal by accusing Banier of abusing her.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about the week in sports — NFL suspensions, track and field farewells and a baseball player sold on the cheap — with NPR's Tom Goldman.

A new exercise to help moms fix their mommy pooch looks suspiciously like an ancient yoga breathing technique. But there are few key differences.

"A violent yet controlled sport that's kind of a form of art." That's how Phaidra Knight describes rugby. On her retirement, she tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what drew her to the sport.

Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. We get his reaction to President Trump's warning to North Korea that U.S. forces are "locked and loaded."

Counterprotesters confronted pro-Trump demonstrators in Seattle, prompting a standoff. It was just one of many events across the country protesting the violent white nationalist rally in Virginia.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga continues to reject results that handed President Uhuru Kenyatta re-election. "There is no work until Tuesday, when we will announce the next step," Odinga said Sunday.

Seventy years ago Monday, Muslims on the Indian subcontinent got their own country: Pakistan. But in the decades since, the idea of who belongs there has changed.

In NPR's new international podcast, host Gregory Warner, a longtime foreign correspondent, travels the globe to drop in on stories that reflect back on subjects we're talking about in the U.S.

Vice President Mike Pence is on a six-day tour of South America. But even thousands of miles away, Pence had no choice but to respond to the events over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va.

Young children have an easier time exporting what they learn from a fictional storybook to the real world when the storybook is realistic, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.

Duke Energy's commercial renewable energy division is expanding into New York State by buying one of that state's largest solar energy farms. Duke…

The opioid crisis is described now as a “national emergency” by the president. Will this open the floodgates for more funding, more help?

Handlers for the estate of Prince have struck their newest deal.

The state legislature is considering a bill which would require all middle and high schools to open at 8:30 a.m. or later by 2020.

More than 70 people of multiple races and religions gathered at the Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church in Charlotte today to respond to the tragedy in…

A noted rescuer with the U.S.-backed White Helmets was among several killed in Syria this weekend in an attack on one of the group's offices. It could have been a criminal gang that stole their vans and equipment.