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On Tuesday, British lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for how Britain would leave the European Union.

With the Islamic State almost forced out of Syria, has the U.S. met its objectives in the battle against ISIS? Steve Inskeep talks to Jasmine el Gamal, a former Middle East adviser at the Pentagon.

Employers added 223,000 jobs in May as hiring showed a healthy pickup from the prior month. President Trump created controversy by tweeting beforehand that he looked forward to the report coming out.

The first government shutdown in history was in 1879, when former Confederate Democrats in Congress refused to fund the government unless protections for black voters went away.

The U.S. remains committed to fighting corruption, a State Department spokesperson says, after the country stops "domestic implementation" of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

One of the goalkeeper's aims is to change America's "pay to play" youth soccer system. She joins a crowded field of contenders for the top post after Sunil Gulati announced he wouldn't run again.

The Trump administration announced it is expelling dozens of Russian intelligence officers in response to a poison attack on a former spy and his daughter in the U.K.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, about why the U.S. policy for Cuban migrants is different from others.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Susan Rice, former National Security Adviser and U.N. ambassador, about U.S. strategy in Syria after President Trump's decision to withdraw troops.

Two high-ranking Trump administration officials have been to the island recently. The visits come against a backdrop of deepening mistrust and deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China.