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Diplomatic talks between Russia and Ukraine are scheduled for Monday. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing the country every day. The EU and Germany announced moves to support Ukraine.

The governor of Texas wants hormone therapy for transgender kids classified as child abuse. One family is nervous that they may now become targets, but they don't want to leave the state.

The Putin Pub, a 22-year-old mainstay of Jerusalem's Russian-speaking immigrant community, can no longer tolerate the joke of being named after President Putin.

Nocturnal rodent, the Stephens' kangaroo rat, was on the endangered species list but this month it was reclassified as threatened.

Top issues to expect in President Biden's address are his response to concerns about rising inflation and fatigue about the pandemic as well as steps taken to threaten Russia's financial stability.

The Ukrainian military is continuing its defense of the capital Kyiv, while Russian and Ukrainian delegations meet on the border with Belarus to try to find a diplomatic way out of the conflict.

There have been multiple local incidents recently, including one at the University of South Florida in Tampa and one in Sarasota.

China has dominated the medal count at the last five Paralympic Games. That's in stark contrast with the low level of disability access in Chinese society.

Based more than 60 years of red tide data, one researcher thinks the toxic blooms are lasting longer and that climate change may exacerbate the occurrences.

Israel is keeping good ties with ally Putin, as well as with Ukraine. But the owners of Jerusalem's Putin Pub, a bar for Russian-speaking immigrants, erased his name when Russia invaded Ukraine.

SNL usually starts with a comedy sketch, but this weekend — no laughs. The open featured a Ukrainian chorus singing: "Prayer for Ukraine." Candles were arranged to spell out Kyiv.

Curator Aaron Bryant recently spoke to NPR about his favorite images in the Smithsonian's collection. Among them is a rare album of Black soldiers from the Civil War.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Edmonds, a research scientist focusing on Russia's military and an-ex director for Russia at the National Security Council, about Russia's moves against Ukraine.

The owners had set a Monday deadline to reach a deal and salvage Opening Day on March 31 and a full 162-game schedule.

Germany announced a large increase in its defense funding and signaled it will be sending arms to Ukraine. The European Union announced all Russian aircraft will be blocked from EU airspace.

Mario Hoover is in debate, track and field, choir — plus he volunteers at a hospital and at a boys and girls club. He is the first student in his school's 42-year history to get a perfect ACT score.

Some ecosystems have already been irreversibly altered, scientists say. And climate change is wreaking havoc on human health.

NPR's Leila Fadel travels to the Polish-Ukrainian border to talk with some of the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled their homes in recent days as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.

NPR Music's Ann Powers moderates the first-time meeting of far-flung soulmates. Hurray for the Riff Raff's new album was inspired, in part, by adrienne maree brown's book Emergent Strategy.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Professor Scheherazade Rehman of George Washington University, about the international banking messaging system known as SWIFT.

Russia's central bank sharply raised a benchmark interest rate to combat steep losses in the ruble's value as sanctions crimp Russian economic activity.

Facebook parent company Meta says it has uncovered Russian efforts to undermine trust in the Ukrainian government and to hack Ukrainian military officials and journalists using social media.

Russian vodka is being pulled from many shelves and the country's soccer team may find few willing opponents in the near term. But for the most part, experts say, the protests are largely symbolic.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julia Friedlander, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about how sanctions could affect assets Russian elites have in the US, like luxury real estate.

The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has created volatility on global oil markets. The oil cartel OPEC+ has a meeting this week to discuss their output.