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Amid arguments over whether the recent massacres in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York should lead policymakers to focus more on gun control or mental illness, there is an elephant in the room. One trait the alleged perpetrators in both

NATO leaders were set Wednesday to invite Finland and Sweden to join after Turkey dropped objections, as the alliance looked to revamp its defenses at a summit dominated by the war in Ukraine. More than four months after Russia invaded

Boris Johnson is expected to tell NATO members to “dig deep” and prepare for a more dangerous decade with increased threats.

As President Biden prepares to go to Saudi Arabia, OPEC members say the cartel and its allies have fallen far behind on their oil-production targets and are in their weakest position in recent years to help tame high crude prices.

Kyiv’s strategy to make Russian forces pay dearly for ever-smaller pockets of territory risks wearing down its own military, which has incurred heavy casualties defending and ultimately losing one grueling fight after another.

Vladimir Putin’s cousin and Russia’s second-richest man are the latest Kremlin supporters to be sanctioned by the UK government.

Rappler, run by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, has published reports critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

NPR spoke with high school and college students who have been impacted by gun violence, and are now working to make sure others won’t be. (Image credit: March For Our Lives (left) Sean Sugai (middle) Prolific Films (right))

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg stands on stage and speaks to the audience during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain. Yui Mok/PA Wire/dpa Greta Thunberg has been announced as the headliner for this year’s London Literature Festival.

The latest testimony is the most damning yet