National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...

The West Bank continues to see increasing violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Host Marco Werman speaks with Hugh Lovatt, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, ...

This week, bereaved families in Turkey buried the victims of a fire at a ski resort in the mountainous Bolu province. Survivors spoke out about a lack of basic fire safety at the Grand Kartal Hotel as ...

An unusually strong winter storm pushed a commercial flight heading to London to near record speeds on Thursday. The British Airways plane hit 814 miles per hour, just shy of the subsonic record of ...

There are some media commentators who are concerned that US democracy, and the media that monitors it, are going the way of Hungary. There, democracy was not overthrown by tanks in the streets, mass ...

Syria’s economy under the previous government was tightly managed by former President Bashar al-Assad, his family, and close associates. But now, Syria’s new government is looking to introduce ...

The Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning. The big news is the 13 nominations for “Emilia Perez,”  a French musical that explores trans identity, in Spanish, set mostly in Mexico. There ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling network of trains, subways and buses, often considered the best in the ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind’s journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...

President Donald Trump has paused the refugee admissions program, the federal entity that aids those fleeing persecution and war. It will shut down on Monday for at least 90 days. Krish O’Mara ...

When thinking about World War I, Americans tend to think of the Western Front where the allies fought Germans between 1914 and 1918. But this neglects other stories, like the stories of the Black, ...

For a long time, Venezuela was one of the most-dangerous countries in the world. In recent years, safety has slightly improved, in part because the population is too poor to steal from. But crime ...