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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about his meetings with National Security Council officials and other government officials following the Trump-Putin summit.

With a new conservative Supreme Court justice likely to be seated, only 17 percent of poll respondents say they want the landmark abortion ruling overturned, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.

What we now know as Hoover Dam was one of the most impressive and recognizable feats of engineering of the 20th Century. And in the 1930s, the…

As gene science transforms our understanding of disease, the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine pursues the dream of DNA-based healthcare — and considers the dilemmas.

Cabbie Andrew Gnatovich became well-known for his tweets about life on the Vegas streets, but October 1 pushed him to his character limit.

It’s been a long time coming – but there will soon be casino gambling in Japan. Well, soon being the year 2025, give or take.Last week, Japanese lawmakers…

Journalist Michael Scott Moore went to East Africa to write about piracy. Then he got kidnapped and imprisoned for 977 days. The Desert and the Sea chronicles his incredible ordeal.

Rachel Martin talks to Bloomberg's Golnar Motevalli about a top Iranian military official saying U.S. threats against Iran will draw a "strong, unimaginable and regrettable" response from Tehran.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis prevailed on a number of policy decisions in the first year of the Trump administration, but his positions have been rejected many times in the second year.

President Trump considers revoking the security clearances of several critics. And, new satellite imagery shows that North Korea has begun dismantling its main satellite launch facility.