Thousands of people gathered in Bethlehem's Manger Square as Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Christmas Mass and called for a ceasefire in all conflicts this Christmas.

The centerpiece of the Trump administration's second term has been mass deportations. NPR's Jasmine Garsd recaps how families and American children have been affected.

On Christmas Day, Rev. Mark Seitz, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, speaks about the conflict between Christian values and the Trump administration's immigration policies.

Asfura won Honduras' presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the nation's electoral system.

A major storm and strong winds swept across Northern and Central California, downed trees and power lines, and knocked out electricity overnight for more than 125-thousand PG&E customers.

San Francisco deputy sheriffs have stopped making their weekly Wednesday door-to-door evictions until early next month.

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Ten years after the acclaim and controversy of Alice Walker's The Color Purple and long before Girlfriends and Girls Trip, the Black women's ensemble feature was a rarity on American screens — until ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California about lawmakers' demands that the Justice Department release more files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Steve Inskeep and his brother, Bruce make a deep-fried Turkey while chatting about how their family celebrated the holidays.

Still looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? A new poll finds that most people find cash or gift cards an acceptable holiday gift.