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Approximately half a million people of Iranian heritage live in the U.S. Reza Goharzad, host of "Politics & Society with Reza Goharzad," talks about how they are handling escalating tensions.

After results of the March election were annulled, in which the opposition party won, residents voted again on Sunday in what is widely being seen as a referendum on Turkey's president.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Oregon Republican state Sen. Tim Knopp about GOP senators walking out of the state Capitol, and going in to hiding to protest a climate bill.

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians turned out in Sao Paulo to mark gay pride with a huge parade, after the president criticized a Supreme Court ruling making homophobia a criminal act.

A state Senator from Kalamazoo County wants to roll back the limits on what individual donors can give to state campaigns. State Senator Sean McCann’s…

President Bashar al-Assad has called on the millions of Syrians who've fled the brutal civil war to return home, but thousands who have come back end up imprisoned and often tortured.

Judith Krantz, queen of the 'sex and shopping' novel, has died at 91. Beginning with Scruples in 1978, she sold millions of books with her signature mix of high fashion, hot sex and female ambition.

The U.S. women's soccer team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after a thrilling game against Spain. The U.S. on Friday will play France, which is hosting the tournament.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to political scientist Ariane Tabatabai of the Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank, about the impact of sanctions on ordinary Iranians.

NPR's Noel King talks to NPR's Tom Bowman and Adam Smith, a former senior advisor to the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, about U.S. actions against Iran.