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Afghanistan held a presidential election in September, but the result was contested. The incumbent has been declared the winner, but the challenger says he'll form a parallel government.

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that socialism is unpopular with voters overall, even as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is gaining in the Democratic primary.

Weeks before the 2020 census rolls out to the rest of the U.S., the head count has already wrapped up in Toksook Bay, a fishing village in southwest Alaska that's home to the Nunakauyarmiut Tribe.

America's worsening homelessness crisis can feel like an intractable problem. But Spokane, Wash., may be having some early success trying some new tactics to help its most vulnerable.

NPR's David Greene talks to David Axelrod, who ran former President Obama's campaigns, about how Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg could change the dynamic of the 2020 race.

The annual award, doled out in partnership with NPR, honors fiction that doesn't shy from grappling with thorny social issues. Just one of the five books remaining will win $35,000 come April.

"We just looked at each other: 'Is this what's going on? Let's go,' " Elizabethtown (Ky.) Detective Chase McKeown said, describing how he and his wife acted to stop a man with a gun.

A spokeswoman says the attorney general has "no plans to resign," but the news adds to questions about the politicization of the Justice Department in this administration.

Bird advocates are pushing state officials to make good on a promise to provide new habitat for thousands of migratory sea birds. The animals have been…

South Korea is the latest front in the battle to stop the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. More than 200 people are now infected in the country.