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Mexico is facing gas shortages as its president vows to continue his crackdown on fuel theft. Long lines are forming at stations all over Mexico, as the industry is complaining of crippling shortages.

The Pentagon announced Friday it's beginning to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. So far the withdrawal is limited to equipment rather than troops, but the effects are rippling through the region.

"Ten Good Reasons to Use a Condom," "HIV Facts" and "STD Facts" are the titles of brochures on a turnstile in the lobby. No, not in the health department.…

The saxophonist is a big thinker whose mesmerizing compositions chronicle the music of his native Puerto Rico with the help of an adventurous jazz quartet.

At StoryCorps, Alagappa Rammohan, 79, says books are a sacred transfer of knowledge from one person to another. A book "doesn't force you to read, but it is there," he tells his daughter.

The U.S. faces a policy dilemma in Afghanistan: stay or withdraw. Foreign policy analyst Robert Kaplan tells Noel King that perfectly illustrates a change to America's role around the world.

A Saudi woman says she was fleeing her abusive family and has been stopped in Thailand. Noel King talks Phil Robertson, who is deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch.

Charlotte city leaders are fine-tuning changes to the policy the city uses to decide where new, subsidized low-income housing can and can’t be built.City…

For the second year in a row, North Carolina homeowners quickly snapped up all of Duke Energy's rebates for installing solar panels.Duke began offering…

In a new book, Edward Humes raises question after troubling question, pointing to frustrating subjectivity and the power of damning narratives that feed the ponderous process of criminal justice.

You might not know it from the craft brew pubs everywhere, but Americans are drinking more wine and spirits -- slowly pushing aside beer. We'll find out why.

About 550 immigrant children between the ages of 5 and 17 are still separated from their families. The government has presented a framework that outlines steps to reunite them.

After three days of deliberation the San Francisco jury sided with Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who regularly used the popular herbicide Roundup.

Kyung-Sook Shin's atmospheric, tragic novel follows a beautiful orphan whose dancing skills secure her a place at the Korean court, and later a life in Belle Époque France — but not happiness.

If you’re a person who cooks without recipes, you can probably just skip this entire discussion.But the rest of us have reached overload. We’ve got…

Phones and other electronic devices aren't allowed in the courthouse of the Paul Manafort trial, so a nearby cafe is holding people's phones for a small fee.

The longtime consumer advocate says that now that Apple is a trillion dollar company, it could be doing more for its employees and shareholders.

As a kid Tweedy lied about knowing how to play the guitar, but he must have figured it out eventually because he went on to form the bands Uncle Tupelo and Wilco.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is being criticized for changes to the annual awards. Do we really need a category for "Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film"?

President Trump has taken to Twitter again to criticize NFL players protesting during the national anthem. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.