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American soldiers are helping secure oil fields in northeast Syria — not only from ISIS extremists, but from Syria and Russia as well. It's a relatively new mission for these troops.

As air travel screeches to a near-halt, Congress is coming to the rescue with some big assistance: more than $60 billion in aid for airlines, as well as Boeing and some of its critical suppliers.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is the nation's largest health care system. Critics say the coronavirus will overwhelm it, but VA secretary Robert Wilkie says his department is ready.

As the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump enters a final phase, the focus is on how long debate will last before a vote to acquit or remove Trump is expected.

Forty-seven years after it joined, and 3 1/2 contentious years after the Brexit referendum, the U.K. will formally leave the European Union on Friday.

Barry Black has served as Senate chaplain since 2003. Each day he leads the Senate in prayer — as heard during President Trump's impeachment trial.

President Trump is holding a rally days ahead of the Iowa presidential caucuses. The campaign says it's a show of strength in a state they intend to hold onto in November.

The Trump administration is planning to loosen restrictions on the use of landmines. The move goes against an international agreement that bans their use because of the danger to civilians.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, about the political ads taken out against Georgia Senate runoff candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Muslims in Dearborn, Mich. on the third anniversary of President Trump's ban on immigrants from mostly Islamic countries. They also react to recent U.S. Mideast policy.