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Russia's ban on Jehovah's Witnesses has led to raids, arrests and imprisonment. NPR's Scott Simon says that the religion the Russian government calls "extreme" would be better described as "devout."

A U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital has killed at least one leader of an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah.

Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.

California is the latest state in a growing movement across the country to require media literacy education for all grade levels.

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams tapped into America's current period of struggle on her latest album, a collection of protest songs called "World's Gone Wrong."

France recorded its hottest June since records began in 1947, as a deadly heat wave drove temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) across much of the country.

CT Congressman John Larson and his three challengers in next month’s Connecticut First District Democratic Party primary made their pitch to voters in a televised forum.

Roads were closed throughout the region with flooding on low-lying roads.

Locals and visitors celebrate the sighting of a red-eyed creature first spotted nearly sixty years ago.

A month after Venezuela's deadly earthquakes, the focus is shifting from rescue to rebuilding -- and the costs are staggering.