NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with commentator Cokie Roberts who answers listener questions about the history of relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
A new study surveying 3,000 teenage girls and boys in 25 countries, with a focus on developing nations, found that for every 15 boys who own a phone, only 10 girls do.
Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens in the Northern Mariana Islands got lashed with winds of Category 5 intensity. The storm's vast scale and rapid escalation stunned meteorologists.
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with New York Times reporter Alan Rappeport, who is at an investment conference in Riyadh. The killing prompted many Western CEOs to cancel plans to attend this gathering.
It's been a year since U.S. forces and Syrian fighters forced ISIS from Raqqa. But the Syrian city still has large swaths of destruction, and people are growing resentful.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., about why he thinks Saudi Arabia should be sent a strong message that they need to obey international human rights law.
The looming catastrophe is "much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives," says the United Nations' humanitarian chief.