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Technicians from DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, work to replace a cable at a substation in the Teremky neighborhood of Kyiv on Wednesday.

In an ongoing race, Ukraine tries to repair faster than Russia bombs

Ukraine's electrical grid has been under assault from Russian airstrikes for two months. Repair workers are racing to fix damaged power stations, even as the country braces for more attacks.

FILE - Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Guzman walks outside of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, building during the IMF Spring Meetings, in Washington, April 21, 2022. Guzman announced his resignation on Saturday, July 2, via twitter.

Argentine economy minister resigns amid peso, diesel woes

Argentina's economy minister resigned unexpectedly Saturday, dealing a fresh blow to the government of President Alberto Ferández as the country struggles with economic problems.

Brian Feldman set out to document Twitter trending topics descriptions at the start of 2022, not knowing they would be gone by the end of the year.

Brian Feldman has long been fascinated by Twitter's efforts to contextualize trending topics with short descriptions. So he documented more than 450 from this year and put them in a public archive.

A trip to Munich during Yom Kippur changed this woman's view of her religion

Writer Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reflects on what the holiest day in Judaism has meant for her after an experience in Germany changed her connection to religion.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, pictured here at an election debate in October, left his country for Florida two days before his term ended.

Why Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida (and what Biden could do about it)

Brazil's far-right ex-president was lying low in Orlando, Fla., as a mob of his supporters stormed government buildings this weekend. Analysts say the move insulates him from possible legal jeopardy.

Ride-share companies Lyft and Uber announced they will add a temporary surcharge on their rides to help their drivers deal with the rise in gas prices.

Uber and Lyft add fuel surcharges to rides as gas prices surge nationwide

As of Wednesday, the average cost of a gallon of regular fuel is now $4.305, according to AAA. Both ride-share companies say they're adding surcharges to deal with the spike in gas prices in the U.S.

Fred Crittenden, 73, lost his sight to retinitis pigmentosa when he was 35 years old. Today he has no visual perception of light. "It's total darkness," he says. Still, he has cells in his eyes that use light to keep his internal clock ticking along nicely.

Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock

We mark our days by sunlight, with special receptors in our eyes that respond to light and help reset our body clocks each day. This man can't see, but is still a circadian wiz. Here's how.

A river of rain water gushes through the Mission Trails Golf Course after four straight days of showers, in San Diego, California on Dec. 21, 2010.

Rain helps increase containment of huge California wildfire

A major storm that battered western Alaska over the weekend has churned through Northern California after bringing early-season snow to mountains and dropping rain that helped firefighters increase containment of a huge wildfire.

People shop in a Manhattan store on Oct. 26, 2022 in New York City. Inflation, in the form of higher prices for gas, food and other consumer goods is weighing on U.S. economic growth.

New GDP report shows an economic turnaround, but don't be fooled

Thursday's GDP report shows the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in July, August and September, after shrinking in the first half of the year.

For the first time there are 8 billion people on the Earth, U.N. report says

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jack Goldstone, a professor of public policy at George Mason University, who writes about population trends, about the world's growing population.

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