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In India, hundreds of millions are casting their ballots in parliamentary elections over the next month. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Indian reporter Supriya Sharma.

City leaders in Youngstown, Ohio, are hoping that by leasing land to drilling companies, they might generate funds to demolish vacant homes and buildings. Some refer to this as "frackmolishing," and opponents worry the drilling will cause environmental damage.

NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, national co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sander's campaign, about the path forward for Sanders after he fell short of expectations on Tuesday.

After two years as Vice President Dick Cheney's closest aide, Mary Matalin prepares to leave the White House. Matalin, who has a long history in Republican politics says she hopes to spend more time with her family -- including her husband, is Democratic political strategist and TV personality James Carville. NPR's Juan Williams talks with Matalin.

Contestants gather in England for the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling to chase a big wheel of cheese down a steep hill. Canadian Delaney Irving regained conscious to find out she won the woman's race.

In Russia, relatively few people seem to be following the U.S. presidential election campaigns closely, but most people know the names of the front-runners.

The Lebanese militant organization says it was insurgent shelling near Damascus International Airport that killed Musrafa Badreddine. But major questions remain about the circumstances of his death.

South Africa laid out its argument on Thursday, making the case that Israel is acting with clear genocidal intent in Gaza.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he aims to forge a stronger relationship with Washington, and China's territorial expansion in the South China Sea will be a major topic to discuss.

Ex-chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers are blasting an analysis from UMass-Amherst professor Gerald Friedman that Bernie Sanders' camp has praised recently. Do their opinions matter to voters?

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday.

The next steps in the fatal midair plane and helicopter crash investigation. And, why nuclear testing could ramp up in the U.S., as well as a look inside the secret lab where weapons testing happens.

Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead last night outside of a Jewish museum. And, House Republicans passed President Trump's bill.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump Administration to start executing its ban on trans military service members. And, the conclave to elect the Catholic Church's new leader begins today.

The Trump administration is developing a searchable national citizenship data system, worrying some officials. And, the Senate focuses on the sweeping Republican tax and spending bill.

The DOJ's case against former FBI Director James Comey faces new challenges. And, newly released emails name powerful figures who stayed close to Jeffrey Epstein even after his conviction.

Michigan's Lake Superior State University collects nominees for words or phrases that should be outlawed for "misuse, overuse and general uselessness." This year's No. 1 suggestion is all about the cliffhanger.

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

The former secretary of state says a new report that some emails on her private server exceeded the "Top Secret" classification is "an effort to inject" controversy into her campaign.

A Miami-Dade doctor and central Florida woman testified before a committee of top Democratic members of Congress in Fort Lauderdale during a hearing about “the escalating threat to reproductive freedom.”