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First-time novelist Sabaa Tahir creates Capital Letter Fantasy in An Ember in the Ashes, with rebel Scholars battling an ancient, brutal Empire. Critic Amal El-Mohtar calls it "frequently riveting."

As deadly violence continues to expose potential instability in Pakistan, the nation's military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is feeling the heat. The Pakistan People's Party of former leader Benazir Bhutto is among the most persistent critics.

Immigration is playing a big role in the 2024 election and was featured in Thursday night's presidential debate on CNN. NPR looks at the facts behind the candidates' claims.

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in his final day in office, before the inauguration of his political protégée Claudia Sheinbaum.

The Caesar salad was invented at a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 4, 1924, to feed hungry American tourists. We've been enjoying it in various incarnations ever since.

Tuesday's vote marked the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. The Arab nations behind the plan hoped to show broad support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.

A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka had no fire exits, the country's prime minister said Friday. Rescuers are continuing their search for more victims.

The elderly residents of Wave Crest Gardens in Queens know things could be worse. Their building didn't get washed away, or lose a roof, during Sandy. But they've been without heat and power for a week, and some residents are increasingly worried.

President Biden delivered his first commencement speech as commander-in-chief to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. There, he did not shy away from discussing the growing conflict in Europe and the Middle East.

Several thousand federal inmates are being released early as a result of changes to U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines on drug crimes.