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As Brazil reacts to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 12-year jail term for corruption, Lula claims it's a political maneuver to keep him from being re-elected.

Britain's The Guardian was one of the newspapers that first published classified material from the NSA leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden. The controversy over the leaks took a new turn when the partner of the reporter who helped break the story was detained at London's Heathrow Airport.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Bill Miller, former head of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, about the fallout after a former ambassador was charged with being a foreign agent for Cuba.

Work holiday parties are back in full force this year. Etiquette expert Elaine Swann talks to NPR's Michel Martin about how to get through them without embarrassing yourself.

A new report out Wednesday from the group Global Carbon Project says carbon dioxide emissions were up 1.1% in 2023 despite explosive growth in renewables and electric vehicles.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about the Mueller report that was delivered to the attorney general on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues his Middle East trip, with a surprise visit to the occupied West Bank and to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, in search of a diplomatic solution to the war.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin about the fate of those people captured by Hamas, when militants attacked Israel.

Misinformation about the war between Israel and Hamas is spreading on social media. Videos are being taken out of context or mischaracterized.

The latest book by former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb, Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, reads more like scintillating gossip about the famous writer and his family than literary scholarship. NPR's Heller McAlpin is fine with that.