Global Politics

Takeouts: NCAA final, partisan bickering blocks unemployment benefits

Conflict & Justice

Takeouts: political news, your responses

Takeouts: Capitol Hill as training ground for top lobby jobs, START treaty's journey through congress

Takeouts: Arizona passes harsh anti-illegal immigration laws, Washington lawmakers investigate mine explosion

Takeouts: Obama's tax returns show frugal first family, NBA playoffs

Takeouts: preview of the legislative week ahead, NBA playoffs

Takeouts: Congress poised to face-off against Facebook, NHL playoffs

Lake Palcacocha is located in Peru's Ancash region, at 15,000 feet above sea level.

Environment

'We are worried': Melting glaciers lead to dangerous overflow in this Peruvian lake

Iraqi cellist and conductor Karim Wasfi leads a performance at the National Theatre in Iraq, Baghdad, March 11, 2023.

Music

Iraq’s revived art scene is helping to heal the country’s wounds

As vaccination levels drop in Ghana, the threat of a measles outbreak looms.

Health & Medicine

'Red alert for child health': A nationwide vaccine shortage hits Ghana amid measles outbreak

Singer Gloria Estefan performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration at Battery Park, in New York, May 15, 2019.

Gloria Estefan is set to be the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Afghanistan

Prominent Afghan news organization reports on life under Taliban rule from Maryland 

The view from the Emerald Line commuter rail, which follows the Pinheiros river and ends at Vila Natal, one of the enclaves of Venezuelan migrants in São Paulo.

Migration

'We have to fight': Venezuelan women lead migration to Brazil  

A visitor takes in the painting “Red Sunset," by Mariupol painter Arkhyp Kuindzhi. 

Ukraine

Art historians debate identity of iconic Mariupol painter

Guyana faces risks from climate change that include rising sea levels that could eventually submerge the capital Georgetown.

Energy

Guyana’s discovery of oil reserves has the nation split between boosting the economy and preserving the environment

Faith and family sustain this Kyiv family in wartime Ukraine

Young men chat near Al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.

Young Iraqis reflect on the US-led invasion, its aftermath and their hopes for the future

Takeouts: Obama roasts Washington at White House correspondents dinner, NBA playoffs, listeners respond

Takeouts: the politics of terror; NBA playoffs

Takeouts: Gulf oil spill threatens Democrat's climate bill, listener responses

Takeouts: Kagan draws crowds on the Capitol, Canadiens upset the Penguins in NHL playoffs

Takeouts: senate looks for ammo in Kagan's paper trail, NBA and NHL in conference playoffs

Takeouts: repealing 'Don't Ask Don't Tell;' the French Open starts

Takeouts: financial reform hits a snag, NBA playoffs

Arts, Culture & Media

War Bonds, Congress' Declaration of War, Americans on the War

Washington Takeout

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