Blog Verité

“I escaped from the burning house right after I brought out my dog. I couldn’t bring anything else with me,” one man says of the rush to flee the fire. (Image credit: Kangwon Ilbo via Getty Images)

A decade ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly backed a Palestinian state. Now as Israel heads to elections, he has campaigned on his opposition to one.

We look at how Boeing is responding to Ethiopian investigators who found that despite following all of the safety procedures provided by Boeing, the crew was unable to prevent the crash.

NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks with Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., regarding the House resolution invoking never-before-used powers to demand the Trump administration withdraw support for the war in Yemen.

President Trump travels to the U.S. Southern border Friday in a week when he’s repeatedly threatened to shut that border completely. We hear about how Mexico is responding.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra about his stance on the U.S. government supporting the domestic semiconductor industry and China’s semiconductor ambitions.

Despite a global refugee crisis, the United States is closing its doors. Refugee resettlement is near record lows, even for minorities whose plight the Trump administration has highlighted.

Libya is descending into another bout of factional warfare.

Nine Brunei-owned luxury hotels have deleted their social media accounts following a backlash over the country’s new anti-gay laws.

Two women killed themselves and their six adopted children when they drove off a cliff in California, a coroner’s jury has concluded.