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NPR speaks with Ukrainian journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych, who volunteered for the Ukrainian armed forces after Russia's full-scale invasion and became a Russian prisoner of war.

Lillian Gregory, the widow of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, remembers her husband who died in 2017. The interview is part of the StoryCorps "Brightness in Black" project.

Nearly all the migrants held at Guantánamo — 177 Venezuelans — have been flown back to Venezuela. Court records show about one-third had no criminal record, contradicting administration claims.

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

The Trump administration has fired several hundred employees at FEMA. When it comes to helping disaster victims on the ground, the agency was already hundreds of people short.

China had given notice that its warships could potentially fire live weapons during an exercise in the Tasman Sea, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will sell shares in Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH nominee, will shed stock in Walmart and Nvidia.

In a new development, the Department of Justice said Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 defendants should apply more broadly and include separate gun charges, as well.

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.