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This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.

NASA Releases Mars Landing Video: 'Stuff Of Our Dreams'

NASA has released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars. The footage is so good and so amazing that members of the rover's landing team say they feel as though they're riding along.

Abortion rights demonstrator Elizabeth White leads a chant in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022.

Frustration at Biden and other Democrats grows among abortion-rights supporters

While abortion-rights supporters have focused their anger at the Supreme Court, but there was plenty aimed at Democrats who they feel let them down.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to media in Tokyo this month. Suga will take part in a Friday summit meeting with President Biden, the first foreign leader to meet the president face to face.

China To Loom Large At Biden's Summit With Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga

As the U.S. tries to enlist allies to help meet the challenges posed by China, perhaps no nation is more central than Japan. Suga is the first foreign leader to meet face-to-face with President Biden.

A man cries over the body of a victim of deadly bombings on Saturday near a school, at a cemetery west of Kabul on Sunday. More than 50 were killed in the attack, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old. More than 100 were wounded.

Afghanistan School Attack: Death Toll Rises, As Do Fears Over Sending Girls To School

"Should we ask children to go to school when the schools are not safe for them? Can we do that?" asks an education activist. One wounded student says she wants to go back. "Continue school," she says.

America's lead negotiator says U.S. diplomacy strategy is working with Russia

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on the tense standoff between Russia and the U.S. and its allies over the Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine.

Kurt Wagner performs with Lambchop in September at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Lambchop's long and winding road

Kurt Wagner's Nashville collective has always been an expression of absolute possibility. The Bible, his best album in a decade, points that instinct at life's most inescapable truth.

Are you in debt for medical bills you can't pay?

We want to hear from you! Share your story with NPR and KHN for a special series investigating medical debt in the U.S.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Fetterman wins Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, GOP race is too close to call

Pennsylvania has an open Senate seat for the first time in 12 years. While the Democratic race was easily decided, the Republican primary looked like it's headed for a recount.

A sign in front of a COVID-19 testing site is pictured at Chula Vista City Hall on Dec. 20, 2021.

San Diegans get COVID tested ahead of holiday travels

With coronavirus cases surging nationwide, locals are hitting COVID testing sites ahead of their holiday travels.

National Youth Poet Laureate for 2017 Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" during the inauguration of President Biden, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Hungarian Roma are translating Amanda Gorman; her poetry speaks to their experience

White European translators have hesitated to work on Gorman's poetry because of criticism that their race makes them inappropriate for the job. In Hungary, a marginalized community steps up.

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