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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Steve Vladeck, Georgetown University law professor, about the legality of President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and other cities.

In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms.

The latest book by NPR's Noah Adams follows the quest by the Wright brothers to be the first to build a heavier-than-air craft that could fly on its own power. He talks about the book with NPR's Melissa Block at the site of the first-ever plane crash death in 1908. Read an excerpt from The Flyers describing that fateful day.

Airstrikes against the Islamic State have become a primary weapon of the U.S. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Douglas Ollivant of the New America Foundation about their efficacy.

More than three years after Superstorm Sandy, NPR and PBS's Frontline investigate the thousands still not home, the government agencies that failed to help and the companies that made millions.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

In Poland and Romania, some are happy to have new U.S. bases in light of recent Russian moves. But others say the most likely result will be heightened tensions with Moscow.

A redrawn Phoenix-area district represented by Rep. Greg Stanton is ground zero for the kind of race Democrats need to win in order to keep control of the House.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman about ongoing global challenges, including the earthquake response, relations with China, and the war in Ukraine.

Politics is never far from controversy — be it Supreme Court rulings, guns or terrorist attacks, like the one in Paris. President Obama — and the candidates trying to replace him — all weighed in.