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The biggest swarm of locusts in decades has chomped its way around a swath of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa — and is now devouring crops in Kenya.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and already people are hopeful that new leadership means new capabilities on the app.

Haiti is spiraling out of control, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. How can the U.N. help, and will it involve military intervention?

Ukraine's president calls Russian drone strikes on critical infrastructure "terrorism." As winter cold starts to set in, officials are calling on Ukrainians to conserve electricity.

Retired senior U.S. military officials are flocking overseas to work as contractors or consultants. NPR's A Martinez talks to Craig Whitlock, who investigated the story for The Washington Post.

Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., is the first historically Black university to have a women's intercollegiate gymnastics team. The 16-member team is in its first season.

Philadelphians tend to climb when their sports teams win. The city has tried greasing the lampposts. With the Eagles now Super Bowl-bound, it's amping up efforts to keep fans on the ground.

Thousands of U.S. troops arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, 100 years ago hoping to influence the course of the civil war that raged in the country after the Bolshevik Revolution.

In middle Tennessee, cleanup and recovery continue after a series of deadly tornadoes early Tuesday which killed more than 20 people and injured dozens of others.

The Trump campaign was trying to woo African American voters by pitching a low black unemployment rate. After the pandemic sent the country on the lockdown, the campaign is now changing its message.