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Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident, conceded to being an "alien terrorist." It marks the first case in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
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Manhattan's Trinity Church marked the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a concert featuring a new cathedral-sized pipe organ, replacing the hundred-year-old instrument damaged in the attacks.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the U.S. Open championship matches in tennis and the start of the NFL regular season.
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India hosts the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi this weekend. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries.
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The Iran-backed Houthi militia captured a strategic Red Sea port city this week. NPR's Scott Simon talks to April Longley Alley of the Washington Institute.
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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Nate Amos, who performs as This Is Lorelei, about his latest album, "The Singer in My Band."
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Despite a diagnoses of stiff-person syndrome, Celine Dion will perform 16 shows in Paris over the next two months.
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President Trump is working in some Irish diplomacy as he attends a golf tournament at his club in Doonbeg.
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The best preserved feather from the age of the dinosaurs was just revealed — and it was inside a blob of fossilized poop. That feather is from an aquatic bird that lived 66 million years ago.
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President Trump attended a 9/11 memorial service at the Pentagon on Friday after speaking on both nights of a Republican gathering in Dallas.