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NPR's Scott Simons asks Economist correspondent Nicolas Pelham about Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, and how she has profited during the decade-long conflict in her country.

We cover global health and development in our blog — but this time we want to hear from you via a new readership survey.

On Saturday, activists and supporters joined Taylor's family in a rally at Louisville's Jefferson Square Park to remember her life and to demand accountability.

The season finale of The Bachelor is on Monday night, and it comes as the franchise faces a number of controversies over how it handles race and concludes the first season with a Black man as star.

The deployment highlights an escalation in the Biden administration's response to the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S. border.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Eric Vilain about the debate over transgender athletes participating in sports and what science can contribute to the discussion.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Greenberg of the Migration Policy Institute about the rise of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border.

Larry Schwartz, a longtime aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, called local officials in New York to gauge their loyalty to the governor. Some local officials viewed it as a threat to cut off vaccine.

Lingering effects of the storm are expected to cause dangerous conditions through early Monday as residents dig out from under the weekend's record-breaking levels of snow.

People who stormed the Capitol were radicalized by what they consumed online and in social media. That should sound familiar: Ten years ago, ISIS used a similar strategy to lure Americans to Syria.