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Mexicans gathered in Ciudad Juárez this weekend to seek justice for the murder of artist and activist Isabel Cabanillas. Women nationwide are demanding changes to a culture of impunity.

Arturo Toscanini was... Well, there’s really no modern equivalent. In this blog, BTPM Classical host Ed. Simone reflects on Toscanini during a trip to Parma.

The U.S. will nearly double its contingent for the women's half marathon championship to fix what officials call an unprecedented problem: an official vehicle took the leading runners off the course.

Democratic primaries in Illinois on Tuesday offered important lessons about what the party's base wants from new leaders, and how views around Israel are changing on the left.

The CEO of a U.S. tech company, who partnered with a Russian firm and began hiring staff in Russia a decade ago, is scrambling to book flights in a bid to get her colleagues out of the country.

Need a good mystery to get your blood pumping? We hear NPR staff picks from our Books We Love list: "The Verifiers," "The Paris Apartment," and "The Latinist."

Author Sam Graham-Felsen was the chief blogger for the Obama campaign in 2008. His debut novel is a coming-of-age story that grapples with race in America.

The actor discusses her "arduous" role as a 53-year-old Yale professor in the dark play, The Sound Inside. "It requires a lot of technique," she said. "Because I don't want you to see the technique."

U.S.-Iran tensions are again escalating as the two countries set up opposing naval blockades along the Strait of Hormuz. Some politicians and local Iranians express similar views on the Iranian government, but disagreement on the regime's removal.

Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas' military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.