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Janet Yellen cleared a key hurdle in her path to become the next chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, after a Senate Banking Committee hearing went smoothly Thursday. The most difficult questions centered on the Fed's stimulus efforts.

President-elect Donald Trump is scrambling to fill a Cabinet and an administration in the next 65 days. The transition is off to a chaotic start.

Once again, President-elect Donald Trump is praising the Russian president as a stronger and more strategic leader than Barack Obama.

At a time when South Sudanese need aid more than ever, staffers from one of the biggest humanitarian groups in the country were expelled — with no explanation.

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, says he's not at all surprised that the hacking of U.S. election could lead all the way up to Vladimir Putin.

Voting patterns show that areas where Donald Trump did well were also places where opiate overdoses and deaths occurred. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Shannon Monnat who led the study.

They were used to clap back at a racist cartoon and express grief for the Syrian war. The world in 2016, captured in hashtags.

A former punk rocker, a former mayor and a multilingual epidemiologist are among the six nominees vying for the top job at the World Health Organization.

Democrats are rallying to Hillary Clinton's defense after the FBI renewed its investigation into her email practices. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been talking up the news.

Republicans control a record 67 out of 98 partisan state legislative chambers, and Democrats hope to take over between six and 12 chambers on Tuesday.