Let's go overseas now to Europe to Belarus, where protests continue a month and a half after a presidential election, an election the U.S. and its European allies say was neither free nor fair. Now the country's longtime leader, Alexander Lukashenko,...
Two Louisville police officers were shot last night. Police say they do have a suspect in custody and that the officers' injuries are not life-threatening. This happened during protests demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. Yesterday, a grand jury de...
Today, Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the U.K., announced new pandemic restrictions to help get the coronavirus under control. 今天,英国首相鲍里斯约翰逊宣布了新的疫情限制措施,以帮助控制冠状病毒。 (SOUNDBITE...
In the U.S. state of California, this gives you an idea of why the governor just declared a state of emergency. 美国加利福利尼亚州州长宣布进入紧急状态,下面来解释一下原因。 It applies to five counties in the central and...
More than 200,000 people have now died from the coronavirus in the United States. That number comes from researchers at Johns Hopkins University who have been tracking the pandemic. And it means COVID-19 is one of the leading causes of death in the U...
Two big stories in Germany which might not seem related suddenly are a gas pipeline from Russia called Nord Stream 2 and the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure to impose sanctions on Russ...
A sweeping congressional inquiry has found damning evidence of failures at both Boeing and at the Federal Aviation Administration in the development and certification of the 737 Max. The report says these failures contributed to two Max plane crashes...
Now let's turn to Japan where there's been a change in leadership. The country's parliament voted in its first new prime minister in eight years. This follows the sudden resignation of Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who says he r...
U.S. military officials today announced a further reduction in American troops in Iraq. Currently, the U.S. has about 5,200 troops there. That number is now expected to drop to 3,000 by the end of the year. For more, we're joined by NPR Pentagon corr...
A refugee camp caught fire in Greece overnight. The flames, we are told, left more than 12,000 migrants in need of emergency shelter. And it was a camp on lockdown at the time because of the coronavirus. NPR's Joanna Kakissis has been to that camp in...