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NPR's Robert Siegel interviews the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein about rights abuses in Syria and the impact on Jordan.

A new study says several states are doing the right things to get students to show up to school regularly.

This week it will be 25 years since the genocide in Rwanda took the lives of more than 800,000 people — mostly from the minority Tutsi tribe — over a three-month period in 1994.

Senators have reached a deal they hope will avoid a lengthy government shutdown and allow time to negotiate reforms to the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. is once again describing the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group, and is planning to impose sanctions within the next month unless the Houthis stop attacking ships in the Red Sea.

Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., and Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., share what their respective parties hope to see in the next Congress.

Nearly 20 people have been killed by Border Patrol agents along the Southwest border since 2010. Some agents have been exonerated, but for those who have not — and victims' families — justice drags on.

As millions of Muslims prepare for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Pakistan is sending one of the largest groups amid added uncertainty from the war in the Middle East.

Public health experts are worried that states are less prepared to respond to the Ebola outbreak and other infectious disease threats because many weakened their public health authorities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump Jr., former President Trump's second son, is set to testify in a civil fraud trial in New York.