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GOP lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Guatemala's presidential election faces more chaos. Social media newcomer Threads seeks to downgrade news and politics on its platform.

More than 4.3 million children have fled their homes in the month since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to UNICEF. It warns that consequences could last for generations to come.

Consumers are paying more around the country. No state's average is below $4.28, according to AAA. But in California, drivers are paying $2 more than that amount.

McDivitt commanded two early Gemini and Apollo missions in the 1960s that played a key role in preparing for the moon landing in 1969.

Lawmakers have roughly three weeks to reach agreement on a budget, a period coinciding with an expected increase in Medicaid funding from the federal government.

According to a new study, fewer than 4% of producers making songs on the Billboard Top 100 last year were women — a number that hasn't changed much over the past decade.

The federal agency cited BP's "lack of business integrity" in dealing with the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The London-based oil giant agreed to plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the case and also agreed to pay a record $4 billion in penalties.

Pat Summitt grew up on a rural farm and went on to a stellar career in basketball. As head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, she won more games than any other basketball coach in NCAA history. Her new memoir, Sum It Up, records her memories even as she is losing them to Alzheimer's.

In 2003, Richard Rubin set out to talk to every American veteran of World War I he could find. With help from the French, he tracked down dozens of centenarian vets and recorded their stories in a new book called The Last of the Doughboys.

Martin, who's working on the long-awaited sixth volume of his series A Song of Ice and Fire, rarely gives interviews — but NPR's Scott Simon recently caught up with him onstage at an awards ceremony.

While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians.

Opposition parties have filed a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol and plans for rallies in major cities are underway.

In his visit to Israel, President Biden made a deal on limited humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza. Twelve days ago, Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel. More than 3,400 people have been killed in Gaza.

Negotiators from Iran, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China are working in Vienna to restore the Iran nuclear agreement. Participants say they are closer than ever to reaching a deal.

The main character of Ian McEwan's Solar is a Nobel Prize-winning climate change scientist who visits the Arctic. McEwan was inspired by humanity's ability to corrode good intentions with pettiness.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rajan Menon, director at Defense Priorities and scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about Russia and India's foreign ministers' meeting.

The writer, actress and comedian has helmed the hit NBC show — which will have its series finale on January 31 — for seven seasons, during which time she's had two kids, been in a few movies and written a memoir called Bossypants.

Farai Chideya talks with Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and author an emotional narrative poem on the death of Emmett Till. Nelson explains why she wrote the poem for young adults, and how it challenges readers to speak out against modern-day injustices.

Trump has canceled a campaign stop at Sanford International Airport today after testing positive for coronavirus.

Over his lifetime, poet Stanley Kunitz has received a Pulitzer, among other recognitions, and served as the nation's poet laureate... twice. As Kunitz turns 100, he reads from his poem, "The Long Boat."

Migrants spend years trying to get to Melilla, Spain — an enclave city on the African continent. It's a perilous journey that led to dozens of deaths in June.

A group of Native American students created a video to show that their community is about more than alcoholism, broken homes and crime. The students are in Washington, D.C., Monday to lobby Congress for increased funding for schools on reservations.

It's tough to see Jason deCaires Taylor's sculptures firsthand — unless you have scuba gear. Most of them rest under the sea. His latest work is fully visible only when the tide of the Thames recedes.

President Biden is back in Washington after visiting New Mexico for a briefing on wildfires which have now burned more than 900 square miles.

Few political violence researchers believe there will be a repeat of the Jan. 6 attack. Instead, many warn that election-related violence is more likely to happen in local communities.