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Deborah talks with NPR's Michael Skoler, who visited the strategic city of Kisangani in northeast Zaire today. Zairean rebels are advancing on the city, which is the base for the government's military operations. If Kisangani falls, many believe that would signal the end of the government of President Mobutu Sese Seko (mo-BOO-too SAY-SAY SAY-ko), who has ruled the vast central African nation for more than three decades. (4:00) CUTAWAY 2C 0:59 2D

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire caused by increased fighting between the Zairean army and Zairean Tutsi rebels. In the area around Bukavu (boo-KAH-voo), food is running out for hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the violence. International pleas to end the fighting have gone unheeded, and there are growing fears that the clashes could lead to a wider regional war, involving the government armies and rebel forces of neighboring Rwanda and Burundi.

NPR's Mike Pesca attended a Major League Baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park Sunday night, when Sen. John Kerry threw out the first pitch of the game to a chorus of both cheers and boos. Pesca compares baseball to politics -- are the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees similar to the two political candidates?

For a seventh straight week, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department rules the Billboard 200. On the singles chart, Eminem references both the Steve Miller Band and his own past glory.

Alistair Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's top media strategist, steps down amid accusations that he helped exaggerate evidence on Iraq's weapons programs. The British media had dubbed Campbell the "real deputy prime minister." Campbell cites family reasons for his resignation. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

Data posted on the Florida Department of Health website showed 1,201 reported deaths, up from 1,144 a week earlier.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In a unique bipartisan effort, the heads of Florida's Democratic and Republican parties both oppose Amendment 3. They had a spirited debate Friday with those in favor of the proposal.

There's a lot of talking going on in Philadelphia this week, as Democrats host their national convention. So with a lot of promises being bandied about,…

Jurors have questions for former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman as well as others who advised the former president's attempts to reverse his defeat in 2020.

Rumors have been circulating for some time that -- just like in the world of sports -- classical musicians are using performance-enhancing drugs. NPR's Tom Goldman talks to NPR's Lisa Simeone about the speculations.

Over the past week, three top CIA officials have called it quits. Their resignations follow the arrival of new CIA head Porter Goss. NPR's Tavis Smiley hears from former CIA officer Lee Strickland, The Weekly Standard staff writer Stephen Hayes and syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, author of Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.

Host Melissa Block asks what the top Summer song of 2005 will be. Several reviewers offer their picks for the season's most popular country, hip hop and alternative rock songs, from The Killers, Sugarland and Rihanna.

It was a banner year for the acoustic guitar. NPR Music partner Folk Alley presents the best the genre had to offer.

NPR's senior education correspondent offers his predictions for the big stories in K-12 and higher education.

After one CEO warned of an economic downturn that will be like a "hurricane," other chief executives suggest the debate over the likelihood of a recession is a tempest in a teapot.

This week on "The Florida Roundup," we spoke about how much money the state has spent on immigration enforcement efforts, advice on how to protect Florida fruit and fauna when there’s a cold snap and more.

Tampa is the best place to live in the entire Southeast United States, according to Money Magazine.New jobs at companies such as Amazon and Bristol-Myers…

PolitiFact data shows that readers came for fact-checks on politicians’ statements about the U.S.-Mexico border, the country’s debt and energy independence, and former President Donald Trump's indictments.

Former White House adviser Karen Hughes is appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, where she will be charged with remaking the United States' image abroad.

The number of Democrats citing abortion rights as a top priority for the federal government to address jumped from less than 1% in 2021 to 13% in a new poll.

The Tops supermarket where Saturday's fatal shootings took place is a store Black Buffalo residents fought for years to get. Its temporary closure has left neighbors scrambling to find food.

A group backing a solar-energy ballot initiative has submitted enough valid petition signatures to take the issue to voters in November --- but still…

U.S. and Pakistani intelligence operatives captured the Taliban's second-in-command. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar effectively ran the organization, U.S. officials say, directing Taliban military strategy in Afghanistan and controlling the group's finances.

John Powers, Fresh Air critic at large, weighs in on the trends of 2007: political campaigns, Iraq movies failing at the box office, HBO's The Sopranos, stories about hitting the road, the TMZing of America, jocks gone wild, hip sentimentality, the nightly ideological news, atheist chic and the writers strike.