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Ahmed Quraishi (second from left), a Pakistani TV news anchor, stands at the Western Wall prayer site in Jerusalem in May. His participation in the rare Pakistani visit sparked a backlash back home, prompting Pakistani state-run TV to fire him.

A rare visit by Pakistanis to Israel has caused furor in Islamabad

Pakistan doesn't recognize Israel. After a delegation visited Israel and even met with its president, Pakistani senators were outraged and one visitor got fired.

Big risks and adventurous friends: How composer Julia Wolfe became a renegade

The Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur "genius" co-founder of Bang on a Can looks for the grit in music, whether she's writing a string quartet or one of her history-based oratorios.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with President Biden via a Dec. 7 videoconference about the tensions over Ukraine. Russia has massed some 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. As Russia's leader, Putin has sent Russian forces on multiple combat missions, including a 2014 invasion of Ukraine.

In times of crisis — or to create one — Russia's Putin turns to his military

When Vladimir Putin assumed power in 1999, he immediately sent the Russian military into Chechnya. For more than 20 years, Putin has repeatedly looked to the military to strengthen his rule.

Ukrainian Col. Roman Kostenko stands in a redbrick farmhouse with a gaping hole in one of the walls. This is where Kostenko taught soldiers how to set explosives.

A member of Ukraine's parliament now trains a recon and sabotage unit to fight Russia

Col. Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, has built a reconnaissance and sabotage team to target Russian forces. His ultimate goal: free his family village from Russian control.

There are parallels between COVID and HIV. Despite effective treatment and prevention tools, preventable deaths continue because of difficulties reaching out to and educating people about the tools. And even as the country seems determined to move on from the pandemic, as of April 2022, someone dies of COVD-19 every four minutes in the U.S.

Despite effective treatments, HIV drags on. Experts warn COVID may face the same fate

HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.

Sedaris likens this photo, taken in the Los Angeles County Library Children's Department before they opened, to a <em>Playboy </em>magazine author photo.

David Sedaris reflects on the driving force of his life: His war with his dad

"My father was not a good person, but he was a great character," Sedaris says. The humorist writes about his efforts to make peace with his memories of his late father in Happy-Go-Lucky.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is seen here at the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2022.

Rep. Cawthorn's sordid tales of life in Congress frustrate GOP leadership

The GOP freshman accused his colleagues of drug use and hosting orgies, without offering any evidence or specific details. It triggered a swifter response from party leaders than past controversies.

Henry Jones, who kept getting sicker after 11 years of homelessness, was admitted in 1991 into Christ House, one of the first medical respite programs in the country.

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.

The NPR Student Podcast Challenge middle school winners Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, Harrison McDonald and Blake Turkey at Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas.

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Filmmaker and author John Waters at his home in Baltimore. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his landmark film, <em>Pink Flamingos, </em>and he's releasing his first novel, <em>Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance</em>.

A lot of material from this John Waters interview couldn't be published

It's been 50 years since the famed director released the movie Pink Flamingos. And as much as the world's changed since then, his first-ever novel shows that his propensity for bad taste ...hasn't.

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