Nigerian Election Has 70 Candidates, Just 2 Front-Runners
In Africa’s most populous country, current President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to hold on to his position, and opposition leader Atiku Abubakar is his fiercest challenger.
In Africa’s most populous country, current President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to hold on to his position, and opposition leader Atiku Abubakar is his fiercest challenger.
The government says it is taking steps to isolate Pakistan, which it blames for Thursday’s fatal bombing. Pakistan calls the violence a result of “brutalities of Indian occupied forces in Kashmir.”
Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, told an audience in New Hampshire that he is launching a 2020 exploratory committee.
Refugees are fleeing to try and get health care. And disease outbreaks across Latin America are being linked back to Venezuela.
Parliamentary groups are pushing for a vote on the U.S. military presence in Iraq after President Trump said its Ain al-Asad base would serve as an Iran watch post.
The advisory comes after anti-corruption protests exploded over allegations about billions of dollars in development money. Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise is refusing to resign.
Maria Ressa, the CEO of the news outlet Rappler, which has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested earlier this week and charged with violating the country’s cybercrime law.
Ko Ni pushed for reform of the country’s military-drafted constitution. A Muslim in the predominantly Buddhist country, he had just returned from a Jakarta visit to study interfaith peace.
Travis Kauffman, 31, was halfway through his run in the foothills outside Fort Collins, Colo., when he heard rustling behind him. He soon found himself in a struggle to survive.
A detective agency hired by the Covington Catholic school found students blameless in the standoff with a Native American man near the Lincoln Memorial that went viral on social media last month.
Almost-certain legal challenges and likely pushback from some within his own party await the president in the next phase of the ongoing national political battle over border security and immigration.
African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the “cancer gap” between blacks and whites is shrinking.
A 1982 law empowers the secretary of defense to redirect military construction funds during a presidentially declared national emergency.
The suspect is a high-ranking officer in Russia’s military intelligence agency, Bellingcat says. The group accuses the Russian government of expunging documents to conceal the man’s identity.
Some Hollywood luminaries have criticized truncating the broadcast of awards for best cinematography, film editing, live action short, and makeup and hairstyling. Some parts will be shown later.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that top Justice Dept. officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment. But his new book is about far more than that.
U.K. flower shop owners who rely on shipments from the Netherlands are concerned about how leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement will affect them.
A trophy hunting program aims to protect the national animal, a goat called the markhor. Local social media was full of protests. But there’s another side to the story.
The DNC plans to host 12 sanctioned debates during the 2020 primary cycle. The first one will be in June on back-to-back weekday nights. The format changes follow criticism from the 2016 campaign.
Last spring, NPR traveled across the country to speak with teenagers about their many different relationships with guns.
The prominent Republican lawyer, confirmed by the Senate Thursday, will lead the Justice Department for a second time. He first served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush in the early ’90s.
Inflation in Zimbabwe is sky-high — marked by ill-equipped hospitals and long lines for fuel. NPR talks with two doctors who say they don’t have the supplies to keep patients, and themselves, safe.
Following a year of outraged activism, some survivors went silent Thursday. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School invited students to participate in community service projects.
Greeting card companies have weathered some tough times as more people send good wishes online. But millennials are purchasing more cards, which has helped stabilize the industry.
The parliament overwhelmingly approved the changes, which require a referendum to enter into force. Human rights groups are expressing alarm, saying they “sanction lifelong presidency.”
An Amazon spokeswoman told NPR that this decision is not reversible, and the company plans no further negotiations. The company will not search for a new HQ location.
The department’s own inspector general says student loan companies aren’t following the rules, and that the government isn’t doing enough to hold them accountable.
Tax refunds so far have been smaller than last year’s. Some taxpayers kept a bigger share of their income, but for others it reflects an overhaul that rewarded high earners the most.
An anonymous survey found 747 students suffered unwanted sexual contact in the last school year at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies. That’s up nearly 50 percent from a survey two years earlier.
“This agreement is a win, plain and simple: for our students; for our educators; and for our communities,” said Denver Classroom Teachers Association President Henry Roman.
Congressional leaders are prepared to vote Thursday on a $333 billion bipartisan spending package to avoid the threat of a partial government shutdown.
The man printed the gun after a background check stopped him from purchasing a firearm legally. His sentencing comes as lawmakers around the country are trying to expand background check requirements.
LaRouche was connected to bizarre conspiracy theories and ran for president eight times between 1976 and 2004.
They say the constitution’s language on marriage should be reinterpreted. It’s the first lawsuit challenging the country’s rejection of same-sex marriage.
Sharing of online streaming video and music passwords among sweethearts is a territorial marker, like wearing a boyfriend’s sweater. But what happens to custody of the accounts when the love is gone?
Satellite images show the amount of green vegetation on Earth increasing, despite deforestation. But some of the added greenery has a downside.