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President Trump hosts Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the White House Monday. The Obama administration never invited Sissi to Washington out of concerns over his human rights record.

Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers officially begin their new hosting duties Monday. Shapiro joins hosts Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish at NPR headquarters in Washington; McEvers will be based in LA.

The team at Morning Edition welcomes Leila Fadel to the host chair. She's been a correspondent at NPR for a decade.

Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district has become the first place in Japan – and all of East Asia — to recognize same-sex partnerships. It raises the possibility other parts of Japan will follow.

The Laysan Albatross was first banded (or marked) in Hawaii in 1956. Meaning, she could be even older than the current estimate of 74.

The creators of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale are now telling their tales of a strange desert town in novel form, in a new book reviewer Amal El-Mohtar calls "splendid, weird, moving."

Homosexuality and gender nonconformity have long been frowned upon in Chechen society. Welcome to Chechnya is a grimly ironic title for a documentary that plays like a chilling undercover thriller.

Americans are increasingly passing up on dining out. So one restaurant is allowing diners to pay what they like for their food.

Heat waves today are not the same as 60 years ago. The warming climate is making them more intense and they're lasting longer. Here are five ways you can beat the heat and stay cool.

The most recent Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage included a provision to eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped workers. What would that mean for restaurants and those who staff them?