Chicago Catholics react to the news of Pope Leo X1V
Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead the Catholic church, grew up in the Chicago area and Catholics in Chicago are overjoyed.
Palestinian prisoners released during ceasefire report harassment by Israel
Several Palestinian prisoners and detainees released during this ceasefire deal have been harassed by Israeli forces after their release, their homes raided or their family members arrested.
Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management is a petroleum industry lobbyist
President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees a lot of domestic energy production, is a petroleum industry lobbyist who contributed to Project 2025.
Meet the neuroscientist looking for whale and dolphin brains along Brazil's coastline
Neuroscientist Kamilla Souza is bringing the study of whale and dolphin brains to her home country of Brazil. Now there's a team of Brazilian scientists intent on understanding the marine mammals.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addresses NATO for the first time
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is visiting with NATO. Allies were concerned that President Trump talked with Russia's Putin to push for a peace deal with Ukraine without notifying European countries.
Trump ignites political firestorm in South Africa over Afrikaner asylum status offer
President Trump's offer of refugee status to economically privileged white South Africans has enraged some people in that nation. NPR gets more reaction from South Africans on the issue.
A social worker took Trump's offer to resign. Then she was told she's not eligible
A social worker with the Department of Veterans Affairs accepted Trump's "Fork in the Road" resignation offer, but later learned she's ineligible. She remains worried about the future of her work.
Trump administration signals that it expects Kyiv to make hard concessions to Moscow
President Trump is pressing Ukraine to quickly end a war started by Russia. Ukrainians, meanwhile, are responding with dread as their government scrambles to find leverage.
Citizen science helped expose the biggest wildlife die-off ever documented
Decades of citizen science in Alaska helped researchers figure out how one of the biggest wildlife die-offs -- that of the seabird the common murre -- unfolded.
How Trump tariffs will affect U.S. fashion
As the U.S.-China trade war intensifies, fashion industry is facing some tough questions about how tariffs will shake up their budgets.
The Panama Canal needs more water. The proposed solution would displace thousands
A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?