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To show the economic importance of women, organizers are encouraging them to take the day off from paid and unpaid labor and not to shop — except at women and minority owned and small businesses.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is scaling back its work in Darfur, Sudan — a conflict that the U.S. once labeled a genocide. The ICC prosecutor says she is shifting resources elsewhere and blamed deadlock on the UN Security Council.

U.S. immigration officials hope to build an automated computer system to help screen visa applicants and find potential terrorists. But the idea has some tech experts worried.

President Trump has unveiled his spending priorities Monday, calling for more spending on the military, border security and the opioid crisis.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has referred to the FBI an alleged scheme involving a purported offer to pay a woman to make false sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller. News organizations including NPR received unverified claims about the alleged scheme which have not been possible to substantiate.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution about whether President Trump's "America First" foreign policy is emboldening autocrats around the world.

The Trump administration says it will be relentless with its sanctions against Iran until it's a "normal country," but still giving major importers of Iranian oil a chance to continue business without penalties.

Half of eligible voters might go to the polls this fall, which would be the highest turnout level in a midterm election since the mid-1960s, another time of cultural and social upheaval.

In a stern letter to the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, Senate Democrats demanded evidence that he is safeguarding student borrowers.

Officials from the Census Bureau and Commerce Department are set to testify in May about 2020 census which will ask if respondents are citizens, a question which has sparked lawsuits.