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Russian missile hit cities across Ukraine — including Kyiv and Lviv. Big names drop in to key midterm states. And Iran tries to shut down protests, now in their fourth week.

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

In France, workers are protesting against the government proposal to raise the retirement age, and in the United Kingdom, people are protesting low pay amid a cost of living crisis.

According to a new study, Salt Lake City has been named one of the least “Grich-iest” cities in the United States.

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

Danny Werfel is in place as the new IRS commissioner with a new budget courtesy of the Inflation Reduction Act. How's he going to spend it?

From watching the sun rise — yeah, it's a cliche but it works! — to dancing to techno music to doing good for others to just plain smiling, readers share what gives them optimism in times of trouble.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Guilherme Casarões, political science professor in Brazil, about the parallels between Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro in the wake of riots in the Brazilian capital.

Princeton's been the surprise of the men's March Madness basketball tournament thanks, in large part, to senior forward and economics major Tosan Evbuomwan.

Saudi Arabia and Iran are restoring full diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by China, a move that could reduce tensions in the region and that asserts China's growing influence in the Gulf.