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As Russia completed its controversial annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army is taking back some of that territory village by village.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease.

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania was part of a classified intelligence briefing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He talks to NPR's Steve Inskeep about the latest developments in the war.

For the sixth year in a row, the number of U.S. births fell in 2020, reaching the lowest level since 1979. The fertility rate remains "below replacement" — the level needed to compensate for deaths.

Imagine what it must be like to be a teacher in the schools around Uvalde, Texas. Following Tuesday's shooting, you have to go back to work, greet your students and try to make them feel safe.

President Biden hosts Germany's chancellor at the White House. House ethics panel investigates New York Rep. George Santos. Some quake victims in Turkey and Syria are moving to container housing.

The former co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter faced criticism in 2017 for calling the president a white supremacist. In her memoir, Uphill, she talks about her career and her life growing up in Detroit.

Just days after Roe was overturned, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, who had offered abortion care as part of her practice.

Michael R. Jackson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is about a young Black gay musical theater writer named Usher, who works as an usher at a Broadway show — just like Jackson once did.

How does a scene survive when disaster strikes its venues, music schools, rare instruments and priceless archives all at once? The musicians of flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky have a few answers.

A review of Russia's strategy in Ukraine. The Jan. 6 panel says it has evidence Trump broke laws trying to overturn the election. As COVID eases, Biden has a plan to get things back to normal.

We talk to voters in the U.K. about contenders for the Prime Minister's post following the abrupt departure and brief tenure of Liz Truss.