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The long-serving monarch named his successor, Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, who was sworn in as sultan Saturday. Under Qaboos, the tiny Middle Eastern state took on an outsize role in regional diplomacy.

Bob Orozco is 89 and still leading fitness classes at the YMCA. He's among the 25% of Americans who are of retirement age but choose to keep working.

Evangelical Christians are furious over President Trump's green light to a Turkish invasion of Kurd-controlled territory in Syria. Thousands of Syrian and Kurdish Christians are in danger.

Most of the bans aim to curb emissions and protect pedestrians. The bans are also sometimes touted as a way to help fight obesity, but past studies suggest they don't have that effect.

Mexico is on course to accept as many as 80,000 refugees this year. Its tiny asylum agency is overrun with applications and many asylum-seekers are stuck in a bottleneck of bureaucracy.

"I can't emphasize enough how horrific this is," says Charlie St. Clair of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association. "It's our worst nightmare." Three other motorcyclists were injured.

Iran successfully launched a medium-range missile On Wednesday, according to U.S. officials. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David Sanger of The New York Times about Iran's missile program.

For many Americans around the country, climate change is a partisan political issue. But to many people of religious faith, the issue transcends...

D.A. Pennebaker used portable cameras and redefined documentary filmmaking. Pennebaker was best known for Don't Look Back, The War Room, and Monterey Pop. He died Thursday at 94.

The president's Republican allies in the Senate never appeared to warm up to the Texas congressman, and news reports suggested he had overstated his terrorism-fighting qualifications.