NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nancy Youssef of "The Wall Street Journal" about the release of a detainee from Guantanamo Bay prison -- the fourth such release in two weeks.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to journalist Kejan Haynes on the latest from Trinidad and Tobago, where the government declared a state of emergency following bouts of gang violence.

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

Blake Lively sued "It Ends With Us" director Justin Baldoni and several others tied to the romantic drama, alleging ...

An emerging film festival in Lagos, Nigeria, is trying to change the stories mainstream Nigerian films tell.

Early Tuesday morning, almost the entire island of Puerto Rico was hit with a blackout, leaving more than a million people without power. Officials are warning it could take days to restore.

Syrian refugees in Turkey are considering whether to return home following the overthrow of the Syrian dictator, Bashar a-Assad. But many remain worried about their country's future.

In Damascus beauty parlors, Syrian women hope looking good will help them feel better about a future they fear.

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

Kentucky is among several states that passed bans on street camping and it recently got a glimpse of how it works, in a video showing police giving a citation to a homeless woman going into labor.

In the wake of Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against co-star Justin Baldoni, more actresses ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...