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Pyongyang blamed U.S. officials for the breakdown in talks in Hanoi last month and said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will soon decide whether to end his country's voluntary moratorium on testing.

In this first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump took on the global threats posed by North Korea and Iran and reiterated his "America First" approach to policy.

In the 19th century, one of the most important technological advances was the expansion of railroads, which transported goods from rural areas to cities.

Mary Louise Kelly talks to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for his reaction to Trump's remarks to the U.N., and to get his views on the state of the international security alliance.

A police officer, "blown away" by the size of a neighborhood party's slip-and-slide, persuades her partner to follow her down.

A district attorney says the two inmates may have used power tools left behind by maintenance contractors at the Clinton Correctional Facility.

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, who died on Sunday, was the director of the U.N.s lead agency on family planning and maternal health.

Speeches by high-level representatives were an attempt to keep momentum going as the world moves toward a key summit in Paris this year, which may produce an agreement to control greenhouse gases.

Britain, the United States' chief war ally, reaches out to other nations by promoting a lead role for the United Nations in post-war Iraq. But U.S. officials remain deeply divided over the issue of U.N. involvement and other crucial questions of post-war planning. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.