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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Belfast on President Clinton's third and final trip as president today to Northern Ireland. Although he held four hours of talks with leaders of the main parties, the President failed to break the deadlock that is threatening to scuttle their new power-sharing institutions. He made an impassioned plea to them to defend the faltering peace process. While most gave him a warm welcome, a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party harangued the President for negotiating with Sinn Fein (shin fayn), the party aligned with the Irish Republican Army.

Culture to Do: Oct. 26, 2022

Democrats are gathering for their national convention in Denver with the party divided and the country mired in an unpopular war. The situation was similar 40 years ago when Democrats convened in Chicago, amid battles between protesters and police. What happened then still influences political protests today.

Democrats get new momentum from House passage of a health care bill, but face new tests in bridging differences within the party — and between the chambers — on cost, financing and coverage.

A six-judge panel unanimously dismissed a pair of petitions challenging the Oct. 26 vote that was boycotted by the opposition led by rival Raila Odinga.

Swiss voters backed a ban on niqabs and burqas worn by a handful of Muslim women in the country. A Muslim advocacy group called it Islamophobic.

Western Massachusetts has been a relative stronghold for the Green-Rainbow Party -- the state affiliate of the national Green Party.Franklin, Hampshire…

Chinese officials boast their campaign against "evil" has busted over 50,000 supposed criminal organizations, but experts warn it has served another function: consolidating power.

Some villagers considered it improper for girls to go to school. Now, after surviving the reign of ISIS, young Yazidi women in Iraq's Kurdistan region are getting an education.

Joe Gruters, a Trump-backed Florida state senator, was elected on Friday to serve as the Republican Party's new chairman. Former chair Michael Whatley is running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.