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Cuba's power grid collapse has become one of the worst crises in the country's history.

The U.S. has had a profound impact on Myanmar's Wa people. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Patrick Winn about his new book, Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA.

It's been 60 years since Japan's bullet train first entered service. Could the technology be coming to Texas?

The state's attorney general says federal border patrol agents cannot have access to a strip of land on the northern banks of the Rio Grande that's been a hot spot for illegal border crossings.

China's been the main source of precursor chemicals for the potent drug, and President Biden has made combating fentanyl a policy priority — in the face of tens of thousands of overdoses each year.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, about drug companies holding patents on medications for much longer than they're supposed to.

Voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky signaled support for abortion rights, even where it wasn't directly on the ballot, more than a year after the Supreme Court rolled them back.

A look at why Pakistan is choosing to deport more than a million Afghans now, and what it signals about the changing relationship between Pakistan and its Taliban-led neighbor.

China is making changes to the global infrastructure initiative after some initial stumbles in its first decade — and it's now in direct competition with the U.S.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Georgetown law professor Stephen Vladeck about the powers a president has to enact changes on their first day in office.