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To contain the coronavirus, the U.S. needs to be able to test a lot of people. But we're facing a shortage of a key ingredient: the swab. Here's why these swabs are so hard to source.

The Obama administration says China is trading unfairly in some elements that are critical to the manufacture of cellphones, hybrid car batteries and other products.

President Trump has approved the arming of Kurdish forces in Syria, as part of an effort to take the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. But Turkey objects and views many Kurdish fighters as terrorists.

President Obama is delivering his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. "Today a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," he says.

More Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants in the U.S. are embracing Romanized Mandarin names for their businesses. It's a sign of the changing demographics of restaurant owners.

Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that last week's assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was "a cowardly armed attack" that "amounts to war."

Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine is the first to receive an emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Officials say it may be ready for widespread inoculations within days.

Asian-Americans have displaced African-Americans as the most economically divided group in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. Food pantries are seeing growing needs among Asian-Americans.

As the U.S. prepares to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, we review the city's history with Harvard historian Derek Penslar to find out why it's perhaps the most contested place on Earth.

NPR's Steve Inskeep sits down with conservative writer and newspaper editor Amir Mohebbian in Tehran to understand what Iran's ruling establishment thinks of escalating tensions with the U.S.