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Burkina Faso has fallen into conflict and chaos but humanitarian aid for the displaced hasn't kept up. The Norwegian Refugee Council calls it the most neglected displacement crisis.

Five years on, survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history are still struggling with the psychological and physical fallout.

Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Mykhailo Korenovsky, a beloved boxing coach and father who was killed in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine.

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Georgia is the latest state to enact a law that allows hospitals to create independent police forces. Critics worry the law enforcement focus could have unintended consequences.

Trans people in the U.S. have gained more rights in recent years, yet in many states those same rights are under attack. Now they are grappling with their newfound visibility – and vulnerability.

It's not clear whether the former president will have a mug shot taken when he appears in a Manhattan court on Tuesday. And even if he does, a state mug shot law may prevent the public from seeing it.

DISCO RIOT is a local innovative dance company, focused on collaborative, movement-based art. Throughout the past two years of the pandemic, Disco Riot has created some beautiful dance films and projects, like the "Move American" series of short films about voting issues, or "A Year of Distance." I also recently watched the company add choreography to contemporary artist Ana de Alvear's hyperrealistic drawings at the San Diego Museum of Art. Disco Riot returns to SDMA for a new SDMA+ project, reflecting on Cauleen Smith's contemporary video work — which is itself a work inspired by an early 1600s masterpiece in the museum's collection, Juan Sánchez Cotán’s "Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber." RELATED: A Not-So Still Life: Cauleen Smith At SDMA The short performances are free with museum admission, and take place in the museum's rotunda. Smith's installation is still on view at SDMA. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (from San Diego weekend arts preview) From the museum: Friday, April 1 at 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. Free with Museum admission. The modern dancers of DISCO RIOT explore the Art of the Americas through movement and physical expression in this special live performance inspired by Cauleen Smith’s video installation “Flori Canta”. These seven-minute performance sets will take place in the Museum rotunda at 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Performance date and times are subject to change. Related links: Disco Riot on Instagram Disco Riot on Facebook SDMA on Instagram SDMA visiting information

Health experts told NPR that long-term exposure to trauma and stress — like that of the war in Ukraine — can impact a person's sleep, memory, mood and physical appearance.

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.