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Reporter Jennifer Glasse reports from Kinshasa on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan's announcement today that he was withdrawing a team of investigators who have been probing massacres of Rwandan refugees in the Congo. The team has encountered persistent obstacles while attempting to gather information about Hutu refugee killings.

The U.S. faces a firefighter shortage heading into wildfire season. Global condemnation toward Israel mounts following a deadly airstrike on Rafah.

As leaders gather for the first all-in-person General Assembly since the pandemic, the war in Ukraine is a major focus. Secretary-General António Guterres has warned this is a time of "great peril."

Questions about the dynastic ruler's children and possible succession scenario arose with the apparent second child's repeated appearances in public in recent months.

A day after allegations surfaced that Britain's intelligence tapped the phones of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan prior to the war in Iraq, Tony Blair still has not confirmed or denied the accusations. Nearly everyone agrees that spying on U.N. officials would be illegal. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

In New York for his first visit to the U.N. since becoming president, Barack Obama spent time meeting with other world leaders. He also addressed the U.N. Summit on Climate Change. With progress stalled on Middle East peace talks as well as climate change, it was a day that underscored the challenges Obama faces.

President Obama challenged leaders gathered at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday to join the U.S. in solving the world's problems rather than waiting for America to do it on its own. Obama used his first address to the U.N. General Assembly to calls for a "new era of engagement."

Former colleagues allege the chief Washington correspondent left Fox News after sexually harassing female co-workers. Rosen's departure followed network scrutiny of his behavior toward women there.

The North Korean leader didn't say exactly what the incident was, nor did he contradict the country's official line, which is that it has not had a single COVID-19 infection so far.

Also: Jared Kushner used private email for White House work; a dam in Puerto Rico is still in trouble; and California gets an official state dinosaur.