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The President's Daily Briefing is the top-secret intelligence report the CIA presents to the president every weekday. The book shown here is for a briefing delivered to President George W. Bush in 2002.

Experts Say Intel Should Have Reached Trump On Russian Bounty Program

The president says no one told him about the threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Reports say the information was available in a detailed intelligence file called the President's Daily Briefing.

People chant slogans as a young man recites a poem, illuminated by mobile phones, at a protest in Khartoum, Sudan in June 2019.

World Press Photo Winner Captures Poetic Moment At A Protest

Images of a young man reciting poetry at a protest in Sudan and an immersive 360 project from Hong Kong were among the winners of World Press Photo awards.

The town of Karimabad, Pakistan, is nestled near the Ultar glacier. Pollution and global warming are causing the glacier to melt and form unstable lakes that could burst their icy banks at any moment.

'Maybe It Will Destroy Everything': Pakistan's Melting Glaciers Cause Alarm

Pollution and global warming are causing glaciers to melt and form unstable lakes in the north of the country. NPR visits a valley where farms were destroyed by glacial floods.

Protesters against the new national security law gesture with five fingers, signifying "five demands — not one less" on the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

As China Imposes New Hong Kong Law, U.S. And Allies Take Steps To Retaliate

The U.S. is cutting back its special treatment of the territory, while the U.K. offers a pathway to British citizenship for Hong Kongers.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

Biden Wants The Fed To Help Close Racial Economic Gaps. How Would That Work?

The central bank has blunt instruments at its disposal, which are not tailored to economics of different racial groups. Biden wants the Fed to more explicitly factor in Black and Hispanic outcomes.

Pilar Vega Martinez is using gratuidad to attend the University of Chile to become a nurse. "Without gratuity, I could not have studied. I could not have gone to university. It was my opportunity to go to university," she says.

What The U.S. Can Learn From Free College In Chile

In 2016, Chile passed gratuidad, or "free college." As the idea gains popularity ahead of the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., Chile offers some lessons from what has happened there.

More than 4,000 foreign-born doctors officially begin their residencies at hospitals across the United States today. They'll confront two historic challenges: The coronavirus pandemic and some of the most restrictive immigration policies this nation has seen in decades.

International Doctors Start Residencies At U.S. Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Surge

Totaling about 4,000, they began working Wednesday. They'll face two historic challenges: the coronavirus pandemic and some of the most restrictive immigration policies the U.S. has seen in decades.

Clouds over El Cajon are shown in this image, April 3, 2019.

Light Rain Possible In San Diego County

A pair of weak, low-pressure systems could bring scattered showers to San Diego County Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

A computer screen shows the attendees of a Zoom meeting of Uptown Planners, April 7, 2020.

Social Distancing Disrupts Routines For Neighborhood Planning Groups

Many of San Diego's community planning groups are canceling meetings and postponing elections, while others are holding meetings online to ensure new development projects are not delayed.

Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they'll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000 more Missourians.

Will Missouri Be The Next Red State To Expand Medicaid? Voters To Decide

Advocates for expansion say it would create jobs, protect hospitals from budget cuts, bring billions of federal taxpayer dollars back to the state, and bring health coverage to 230,000 more people.

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