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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.

At the heart of the Trump campaign are the president's big flashy rallies, but the Republican Party is working with the campaign to leverage these events to recruit volunteers and register voters.

A year ago Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries. It has had life-altering implications for many families.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with a healthcare worker in Iran about how sanctions have caused shortages of medical supplies and medicine, and the price of food to rise daily.

Western Michigan University has set tuition rates - at least tentatively - for the next academic year, in a budget that also calls for millions of dollars…

On Wednesday, Border Patrol officials took reporters on a tour of a facility in Clint, Texas, where a group of lawyers allege children were detained without adequate food, supplies and sanitation.