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India has banned "triple talaq," a way Muslim men divorce their wives by saying the Arabic word for divorce three times. Home to 180+ million Muslims, India was one of the last places this was legal.

President Trump says the Texas congressman he planned to nominate as the nation's intelligence chief will remain in Congress. Rep. John Ratcliffe was facing criticism for his limited experience.

Because Puerto Rico's Senate has not approved Pedro Pierluisi yet, legal challenges are expected. Protesters gathered outside the governor's mansion Friday to see his disgraced predecessor leave.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia and chair of the DNC, about how the Obama legacy hangs over the 2020 Democratic presidential contest.

The nine people who died in the shooting early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, range in age from 22 to 57. They include four women and five men.

The unidentified vessel was reportedly taken last Wednesday near Farsi Island, where Iran maintains a naval base. Iraq's oil ministry has denied it has any connection with the ship.

China's central bank appears to have orchestrated the yuan's fall against the U.S. dollar. A weaker currency makes Chinese goods more competitive on the world market.

He was seen as a chief architect of the regime's brutal collectivist policies that led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people. He was found guilty of war crimes by a U.N.-backed tribunal last year.

Conservatives are delighted by a promise kept to nominate a wave of young judges. Liberals fear effects for decades — and peril for abortion rights. The judges are also largely white and male.

Manuel and Patricia Oliver lost their son in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting last year. This weekend they planned to unveil a mural in his honor in El Paso. It's become an impromptu memorial.