Democrats in the Senate were facing an uphill climb Wednesday in their push to restrain President Trump's ability to wage war ...

For nearly 50 years, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been giving viewers a weekly dose of political satire — who can forget Dana Carvey’s “wouldn’t be prudent” impersonations of the ever-so-cautious ...

During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield ...

Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

Six months after massive youth-led protests that ousted a prime minister, voters in Nepal are headed to the polls on Thursday.

More than 10 years ago, Yeganeh Rezaian and her husband, Jason Rezaian, who were journalists, were wrongfully imprisoned in Iran ...

The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has expanded to the Indian Ocean, as a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters.

The war between the U.S., Israel and Iran is now in its fifth day. As strikes continue and embassies come under attack, thousands of Americans across the Middle East have been told to leave, but ...

As the U.S. military broadens its strikes in Iran, traumatized Iranians are reaching the border with Turkey.

Voters went to the polls Tuesday in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. The results could help determine control of Congress and how people feel about Democratic and Republican party leadership.

A court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church's local arm dissolved, after it bilked followers for decades. Ties between the church and Japan's ruling party became a political scandal.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Susan Glasser, who writes the "Letters from Trump's Washington" column in The New Yorker, about the war on Iran and how its early days differ from historical norms.