Gascón became the first trans actress to win a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the Best Actress Award, which she ...

The list includes the first woman to serve as chief of staff. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author and reporter Annie Karnie about how President-elect Donald Trump may engage women for prominent roles.

Israel’s ousted defense minister says the military achieved all of its Gaza objectives, and the prime minister held up a cease-fire deal that would have ended the war and freed remaining hostages.

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions ...

The SS United States, a record-breaking American ocean liner from the 1950s, will take its final voyage from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico this week.

Four years ago, Lourdes Monje was 25, had quit an uninspiring job in New York, and was crashing at a sister’s apartment in ...

Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton supporters gathered at her alma mater hoping to celebrate the election of first female U.S.

Immigration policy is among the top issues that President-elect Donald Trump plans to address in office. He ran on sweeping crackdowns of undocumented immigrants.

We look at the various threats sent to polling places on election day this week, as well as the extent to which foreign actors tried to interfere with the presidential election.

Our daughters voted for the first time this week. Our oldest is 21 years old, and our youngest turned 18 just before Election Day, and so on Tuesday, after our oldest came home from work and our ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to British commentator, Inaya Folarin Iman, about the remarkable rise of Kemi Badenoch who this month became the first black woman to lead a major UK party.

We look at what will a second Trump term will mean for Africa - a continent the President elect has never visited and has openly denigrated.