ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now let's go to the land of flying cars and trash cans that change their own bags. That is Las Vegas this week. About 200,000 people are meeting there for the annual extravaganza known as the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES. One...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Ada Calhoun was having a midlife crisis. And she ended up talking to a lot of other Gen X women who were going through the exact same thing. ADA CALHOUN: Being middle-aged in America right now as a middle-class, Americ...
Harvey Weinstein Heads To Trial For Sex Crimes In A #MeToo La STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Harvey Weinstein goes on trial today. The formerly acclaimed film producer faces sexual assault charges filed by two accusers. Those charges are only the cases that pr...
In Pakistan, a country long dominated by its armed forces, a military dictator has been sentenced to death for high treason for suspending the Constitution. But the government says the special court that sentenced the country's former president Gener...
A year and a half after launching a costly trade war with China, President Trump is calling a truce. Both the White House and Chinese officials say they've reached a phase one trade agreement. Details are sketchy, but the deal includes some tariff re...
India has deployed its army, cut 4G Internet, imposed curfews and cancelled trains and flights inparts of the northeast. Indian authorities wereresponding to thousands of people who protestedafter a Citizenship Amendment Bill passed last night. That...
The longest-ever global climate talks ended on Sunday in Madrid but with not much to show. The summit was supposed to get countries on track to meet the targets of the Paris climate accord. That didn't really happen. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gu...
The long, slow Brexit story has just sped up. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party just won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections. This morning, he promised to end three years of political paralysis in the United Ki...
Recovery teams in New Zealand are getting ready for what could be a dangerous rescue mission. Here's Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Clement. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MIKE CLEMENT: There is not a zero risk with regards to this plan. It does...
Israel is headed toward its third national election in less than a year. The country is politically divided, the prime minister is facing criminal charges, and compromise seems like it's out of the question. Reporter Naomi Zeveloff has more from Tel...