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A dozen lawyers are helping other women in the Swat Valley with divorce, custody and inheritance cases. Some of the women lawyers defied the Taliban to study law and continue to endure threats.

But Cyrus Vance Jr.'s probe of Eric Schneiderman is complicated: Schneiderman has been investigating Vance for his involvement in the decision not to prosecute producer Harvey Weinstein.

The EPA and Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will start work this year to clean up a contaminated former softball field in…

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing for an anti-bullying measure that would require schools to tell parents when their child is being…

The federal lawsuit stems from the department's decision to postpone a requirement that recipients of funding study how inclusive their communities are and plan how to overcome historic segregation.

Bach's music miraculously sounds incredible on whatever instrument it's played on, as we'll hear today when mandolinist Chris Thiele plays one of the…

Reaction was mixed, with Barack Obama calling the move "misguided," Israel praising the president, and Iran and France, Britain and Germany considering the next step.

In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive in Africa and transported on a slave ship to America.

President Trump announced his decision to leave the Iran Nuclear deal. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Norman Roule, a former mission manager for the director of national intelligence, and expert on Iran, about this decision.

Iran and the world react to President Trump's announcement about that the United States will leave the Iran nuclear deal.