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Republican lawmakers try to come up with a package of spending cuts to offset the cost of hurricane relief. With the Bush administration now asking for less money for Katrina victims than anticipated, the spending cuts may be less dramatic.

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign appearance on behalf of his former party. A suspected gunman is in custody.

House Speaker John Boehner's resignation from Congress was embraced as a victory by the right wing of the Republican Party. Social conservatives celebrated the news at a conference in Washington.

Italians head to the polls Sunday in what could be a pivotal election with far-right candidate Giorgia Meloni poised to be Italy's first female prime minister.

How residents in the Itaewon area in Seoul, South Korea are feeling right now, and how Halloween's tragic crowd surge might affect the "party mecca of South Korea."

Donald Trump seems to have ignited a firestorm within the Republican Party with a tweet dare to the Freedom Caucus: work with him or he will work with Democrats.

Chicago voters head to the polls on April 4 for a mayoral runoff election to choose the Democratic nominee. This local race is exposing divisions within the Democratic Party.

Some key legislative meetings are underway in China - we take a look at what they might portend in terms of the direction of China's politics and economy.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Adrianne Shropshire of BlackPAC, about the issues important to African-Americans and what it takes to get black voters to the polls across the country.

After some prominent scandals involving U.S. security officials in Colombia, new allegations of sex crimes are getting some traction there.