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President Nicolás Maduro has allowed the use of U.S. dollars to revive Venezuela's collapsing economy, jumpstarting business and consumption for those with greenbacks. Those without may go hungry.

The devastating fires on Maui burned more than 2,000 homes and buildings in Lahaina. Many churches have taken in their congregants because they have nowhere to go.

More than 230 active wildfires are burning in Canada's Northwest Territories, including one outside the capital of Yellowknife, forcing 20,000 residents to flee.

A former ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the leader has a government-funded "digital militia" that pumps out propaganda targeting the president's enemies.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Omar Rajarathnam about the cargo ship sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster.

The Muslim community in the United States reacts to the mass killings at two mosques in New Zealand that were ambushed by gunfire.

Those in high school years years ago might remember shop class or home economics as assignments for students deemed unable to cut it academically. Today,…

Don Gonyea is a national political correspondent for NPR based in Washington, D.C. and 2016 marks his 30th year with the network. He’s covered some…

Members of Koinonia Pentecostal Church in Lahaina, Hawaii, were displaced by the fire there. The Filipino congregants are unsure when they'll be able to return home.

Police in Marion, Kan., raided the lone paper in town. Amidst a national outcry of violations of press freedom, new details suggest the police chief may have been the focus of the paper's reporting.