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A suspect is found dead, the other is at large, following a mass stabbing in Canada

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Mickey Djuric of the Canadian Press, about a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Ten people are dead and 18 were injured.

The multi-billion dollar National Ignition Facility has used 192 laser beams to create net energy from a tiny pellet of nuclear fuel.

U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?

A giant laser facility in Livermore, Calif., says it has created net energy from nuclear fusion. It's an important breakthrough, but fusion power remains a distant dream.

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha speaks at the daily press briefing at the White House this week.

What the White House sees coming for COVID this winter

The U.S. should prepare for a spike in COVID cases this winter as more people gather indoors and infections already begin to rise in Europe, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha says.

Climate activists demonstrate at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push to reach agreement on a series of key issues.

In a first, U.N. climate agreement could include the words 'coal' and 'fossil fuels'

The U.N. secretary-general warns the main goal of limiting global warming is "on life support." But Glasgow negotiators are making modest progress in their final hours.

Why the hijab is at the center of protests in Iran

NPR's Scott Simon asks National Iranian American Council Research Director Assal Rad why the hijab has become a lightning rod in Iranian society.

Members of the group Border Kindness drop water and other supplies for migrants in the Jacumba Wilderness, Aug. 13, 2022.

Crossing Imperial County’s open desert, migrants increasingly find death

Migrant deaths along the Southwest border have long been a fact of life in the region, but the latest available records show the deaths could be on the rise again.

Most Americans trust that elections are fair. But only a third of Republicans agree, a poll finds.

Most Americans trust elections are fair, but sharp divides exist, a new poll finds

Many Republicans appear to have bought into Trump's lies about widespread election fraud. A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that just a third of GOP voters say they trust elections are fair.

Mohammad Jan Azad (left) and Hamidullah Hussaini (right), hold a poster with faces of the girls killed in a suicide attack at the Kaaj Learning Center in an ethnic Hazara section of Kabul. I recognized the two young women in the upper left corner. A week before, I'd edited the photos for an NPR story about Marzia Mohammadi (left) and her cousin, Hajar Mohammadi. Hussaini was their math teacher.

'I was their teacher': A chance encounter as Afghans protest after a suicide bombing

Pierre Kattar edited the pictures for an NPR story about two of the teenagers killed in the Sept. 30 attack. On Oct. 10, he went to a demonstration in Rome and made an unexpected connection.

Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego Sunday, July 12, 2020, in San Diego after an explosion and fire Sunday on board the ship at Naval Base San Diego.

Lone judge to decide if Navy proved sailor ignited San Diego warship

The defense says the Navy was determined to pin the loss on someone but, after nine days of testimony, had been unable to produce physical evidence tying the fire to the man accused.

Smokestacks belch in Weihai, in China's Shandong province, in 2019. China is set to surpass pre-pandemic levels of carbon dioxide emissions this year.

Earth has 11 years to cut emissions to avoid dire climate scenarios, a report says

Carbon dioxide emissions are rebounding after a dip in 2020, and researchers say that at the current rate, Earth's "carbon budget" will be exhausted in roughly 11 years.

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