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When a teenage girl in rural Nepal gets her period, an ancient tradition may drive her to sleep outdoors. But one 15-year-old is trying to break the taboos around menstruation.

CIA Director John Brennan sits down with NPR for a wide-ranging interview at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. He discusses subjects ranging from Syria to cybersecurity to the state of ISIS.

Midwest readers provide a good barometer for what's popular in books around the country, according to some library officials. So what topped the…

Nearly a year after Election Day, action on Capitol Hill and by DOJ special counsel Robert Mueller helps put the pieces together about Russia's interference. But some remain missing.

Neither the House nor Senate proposals do much for the lowest-income Americans, and some higher-income people could gain a lot.

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, President Trump is the overwhelming factor determining not just Democratic voters' choices but which direction voters will go in the general election.

Before the U.N., Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized Iran for seizing a British-flagged oil tanker. An Iranian news service offered the opposite narrative — accusing Britain of piracy.

Border Wars authors Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear chronicle the president's attempts to upend the nation's immigration system — including a proposed alligator-filled border trench.

After a delay, the House Intelligence Committee is set to convene its first closed-door deposition with a witness. Meanwhile, President Trump thunders, calling the inquiry a waste of time.

We'll listen back to a 1989 interview with actor Harry Carey Jr., who died Dec. 27. Carey co-starred with John Wayne in the classic Westerns She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers and 3 Godfathers. He talked to Fresh Air about filming epic cavalry-versus-Indian scenes — and his most challenging stunts.