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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Danica Roem, a Virginia state representative, about being the first openly transgender elected official to speak at a national political party convention.

British voters have delivered a decisive victory to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party, which all but ensures Brexit.

Ada Calhoun talked to a lot of Gen X women about the angst they feel as they approach midlife — the pressure to have it all and the feeling that they should have done better for themselves.

Nearly a third of Iowa's 99 counties swung from voting for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Republican Donald Trump in 2016. Howard County saw the biggest swing.

On his way to Panama, Pope Francis answered reporters' questions. Steve Inskeep talks to Ines San Martin of the Catholic news site Cruxnow about what the pope had to say about refugees.

As fires blaze across the state, California firefighters have called in some of the biggest air tankers for help. The giant jets are dumping a fire retardant, Phos-Chek, on the flames.

President Trump says he wants his defenders to focus on substance rather than process. Trump says the call between himself and the Ukrainian president is all that matters.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Susan Rice, former National Security Adviser and U.N. ambassador, about U.S. strategy in Syria after President Trump's decision to withdraw troops.

The first day of a Turkish offensive against Kurdish-controlled territory in Syria is alarming U.S. allies there and could expand.

Sen. Mitt Romney, often a critic of President Trump, told reporters Thursday that asking Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden was wrong and Trump's decision to pull out of Syria was "tragic."