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More than a dozen people died during Haiti's celebration of Carnival when a float in the capital, Port au Prince, came in contact with a power line.

An estimated quarter-million people in Gaza are starving. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Programme.

About 80% of those affected by the Taliban offensive are women and children, according to the U.N. The situation has "all the hallmarks of a humanitarian catastrophe," one official said.

Monday signaled day one of the Democratic National Convention. But we all know it’s not the DNC Milwaukee had planned to host at the Fiserv Forum. The…

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a member of Alcoholics Anonymous about addiction in the time of the coronavirus.

There are tributes worldwide to Queen Elizabeth II — from the Empire State Building to the British Embassy in Tokyo — for the United Kingdom's longest-reigning monarch.

Residents were ordered to evacuate overnight after creeks and reservoirs flooded, and won't be allowed home for at least another day.

French authorities continue the investigation into a deadly attack in Nice, France. A truck drove through a crowd watching fireworks for Bastille Day, killing at least 77 people.

Michigan inmates can be billed up to $60 a day for time in a county jail. Some defend the practice as a way to reimburse taxpayers, but advocates say the pay-to-stay fees heap on extra punishment.

Haiti is now in the sixth week of a fuel blockade by armed gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince. It means that escalating hunger, along with a cholera crisis, is getting more dire by the day.