Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute The start of Hollywood’s awards season has been marked by highs and lows for Iranian filmmaker Jafar [...]

Mario Tama/Getty Images North America The Trump administration has started the process of dramatically easing fuel economy requirements for new vehicles, part of the [...]

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A Pentagon watchdog has determined that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. servicemembers by sharing [...]

gpointstudio/iStockphoto/Getty Images Those pesky glitches that occasionally interrupt your video calls may be more than just an annoyance — they could undermine your [...]

I snapped this picture from the car window on the road to Kyiv from western Ukraine last month. My Ukrainian colleagues and I had just been reporting from the town of [...]

Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images Democrats in Washington want to impose legal requirements on whom the Trump administration can bring in as temporary immigration judges, [...]

Thomas Simonetti and Katie Currid for NPR Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the [...]

SEOUL, South Korea — A year after his predecessor’s effort to impose martial law failed amid public outcry, South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung praised [...]

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Bassem Khandaqji entered prison 21 years ago for plotting a deadly bombing in Israel. He left prison as an award-winning novelist. (Image credit: Ahmed Abuhamda) Source [...]