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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson about the FAA's temporary closure of airspace over the city, and how it was communicated to city leaders.

A new play, "An Ark", is one of the first to be created and produced for mixed reality. It recently opened in New York, but does the play herald the future of theater?

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

Musician Robin Skinner, better known as Cavetown, tells us about his new song "Baby Spoon," an ode to the joys of a gentle cuddle and of finding self-love through a relationship.

A woman's bathroom renovation becomes a Turkish prison cell. Kenan Orhan talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his debut novel, "The Renovation."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany amid growing tensions between the U.S. and its European allies.

A Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from competition this week by the International Olympic Committee because his helmet had images of other Ukrainian athletes killed in Russia's war on his country.

In an era when you can bet on almost any sporting event on your phone, it is no surprise that gambling addiction is on the rise. Young men are particularly likely to get in too deep. WBUR's Patrick Madden reports from Massachusetts.

Chinese lawyers and writers are calling for the release of two journalists detained by authorities after they published an investigation into a senior Communist Party official.

The war in Iran could affect oil and gas prices in the U.S.