Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona has died of a heart attack. Here's NPR's Philip Reeves. 阿根廷足球明星迭戈马拉多纳因心脏病去世。NPR新闻的菲利普里夫斯将带来详细报道。 PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: No one disputes Die...
There was a lot of strutting of tail feathers today in U.S. politics, both literally and figuratively. President-elect Joe Biden had a very sober and earnest parade of his picks for top national security positions, while President Trump... 在今天的...
As American forces draw down in Afghanistan, a country that has fought alongside the U.S. is having a reckoning. Australia just released the findings of a years-long inquiry into suspected war crimes committed by its elite forces. It's recommending a...
Peru is on its third president in the span of a week. The first one was impeached last week. The second one lasted just six days before he was forced to resign. That was Sunday after massive protests. And then yesterday, the legislature selected Fran...
President Trump says he has fired Christopher Krebs. He is the head of the agency in the Department of Homeland Security that oversees election security. Krebs said last week he thought that he would be out of a job soon as he worked to combat disinf...
President Trump has 64 days before he leaves office. He plans to spend some of that time speeding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. A formal announcement is expected as early as today. NPR has learned the plan would leave the U...
China and 14 other Asian and Pacific countries have signed one of the biggest free trade agreements in the world. It is called the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, RCEP RCEP, they say. The United States is not part of this giant free trad...
President-elect Joe Biden has announced Ron Klain as his pick for chief of staff. Klain is a longtime Democratic adviser and consultant and an alumnus of the Obama-Biden administration. This is Biden's first appointment to start filling out his own a...
Japan's new prime minister has been in office for about two months, and he's having some problems. Critics are accusing him of trampling on academic freedoms. This is a rare charge in Asia's oldest democracy, and many Japanese people think it's a bad...
Last year Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize. And yet less than a week ago, he launched military operations in the country's northern region. Now that conflict is threatening to turn into an all-out civil war. NPR's Eyder...
More Republicans are getting behind President Trump's baseless claim that there was widespread fraud in the presidential election. Also, Attorney General William Barr has now authorized federal prosecutors to investigate, quote, substantial allegatio...
Russia is stepping in to try and stop a war between two former Soviet republics near its southern border. For the past month, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting over a tiny mountainous region called Nagorno-Karabakh. It's within the borders of...
The news came in a presidential tweet today. Quote, Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service. And that's how Donald Trump let the world know that he had fired the secretary of defense. Trump added that Christopher Mil...
The uncertainty, the wait, is over. Yes, there are still votes being counted this morning and races yet to be determined. Georgia and North Carolina, for example, are still too close to call. And there may be recounts. But the presidency has been dec...
All right. We're going to change gears and head overseas for this next story to Austria. That is where authorities are continuing to investigate a terrorist attack launched last night in Vienna. It left four people and the attacker dead. More than 20...
