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During a 2000 visit to the Fresh Air studios, the former teen idol performed old songs, new songs and songs by blues and country performers who influenced him.

Driven by a profound regret for his votes to authorize the wars in the Middle East, Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., is leading a bipartisan effort to pull the U.S. military out of Afghanistan.

General Manuel Noriega, who was de facto leader of Panama before his ouster by U.S. troops in 1989, has died. Noreiga was brought to the U.S. where he was tried and imprisoned for drug trafficking.

The Hall of Fame sportswriter was public radio's scholar of sports for some 37 years before hanging up his cleats earlier this year. Deford died Sunday at the age of 78 at his home in Key West, Fla.

In St. Paul, Minn., jury selection begins on Tuesday for a police officer charged in the death of motorist Philando Castile, whose killing last summer sparked weeks of protests.

Cambodia owes more than $500 million for when the nation borrowed to help feed refugees impacted by the war. The U.S. helped create many of those refugees through its bombing of eastern Cambodia.

President Trump this week hosts the Vietnamese prime minister at the White House. Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Michalak, who once served as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.

The analysis was solid, but a laugh obscured the point.

Some 350,000 people reportedly were evacuated from their homes before Cyclone Mora made landfall. The worst damage was at refugee camps housing thousands who fled neighboring Myanmar.

Seismic blasting is a controversial technique used to map offshore oil reserves. In January of 2017, the Obama administration officially denied...