Red Cross Pulls 71 Workers Out Of Yemen After Series Of Incidents And Threats
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Mirella Hodeib of the International Committee of the Red Cross. She’s one of 71 staffers who were evacuated from Yemen because of a series of incidents and threats.
A Look At How Spies Might Use The U.S.-North Korea Summit In Singapore To Gather Intel
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bruce Klingner of The Heritage Foundation about spies, tricks and intelligence gathering at the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore.
Why Some Of Brexit’s Remainers Won’t Give Up The Fight
As the British government struggles to reach a deal to leave the European Union, activists are determined to halt Brexit. They’re calling for a new referendum. But in the two years since the first vote, public sentiment hasn’t changed much.
David Douglas Duncan, Photographer Of Wars And Picasso, Dies At 102
One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Duncan documented the Korean and Vietnam wars. He also produced multiple books on Pablo Picasso, more or less living in the home of the artist.
The power of truth-telling about Venezuela
A majority of nations in Latin America took an extraordinary step this week to solve a crisis in Venezuela that is literally spilling across their borders. At a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), they stated that a May 20 presidenti…
As U.S. Flexes Its Muscles On Trade, Other Countries Are Beginning To Push Back
This weekend’s G-7 summit comes as the U.S. clashes with its biggest trading partners over tariffs. President Trump wants them to make big concessions, but he’s encountering a lot of resistance.
‘Hands off our president’: Why Zuma’s charges haven’t nixed his support
In a cramped courtroom Friday morning, former South African president Jacob Zuma sat in the dock and listened quietly as the teams of lawyers in front of him asked to postpone his corruption trial for six more weeks to finish preparing their cases. Fo…
With few choices, the poor take risk in volcano’s path
Amanda Santizo sits on the edge of a foam mattress where her elderly mother is sleeping on Tuesday afternoon. The volcano’s sudden eruption left an estimated 109 people dead and another 200 or more are still missing. “There are many homes located clo…
Trump at G7: Is discord over declining US-led system just a family quarrel?
Just about everyone agrees that the post-World-War-II order of institutions and alliances that the United States built and guided over seven decades is under siege and threatened. It’s a system of economic and security ties that expanded global prospe…
Next up for prison reform: how best to use education as a path forward
To the organ sounds of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” Robert Pratt sits upright in his royal-blue front-row chair. For Mr. Pratt, this is his second graduation ceremony, his second try at balancing a mortarboard hat on his closely cropped head. A w…
Immigrants Who Crossed Illegally With Children Face A Harsh Reality
Under U.S. rules, the families are no longer allowed to be together. In federal court in the border town of Alpine, Texas, three Guatemalan mothers are desperate to be reunited with their sons.
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