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Mother Teresa officially becomes a Catholic saint on Sunday. NPR's Ari Shapiro introduces us to a woman who was friends with the nun for years and worked with her in Kolkata, India.

Half a dozen top executives at the U.S. Agency for Global Media were ousted this week, the latest in a shake-up that started with the arrival of a conservative filmmaker as the agency's new chief.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein and NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg about the decisions reached by the U.S. Supreme Court this term.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Jenniffer González Colón, the resident commissioner for Puerto Rico, about the island's political future following the governor's resignation.

Writer-director Olivier Assayas has a knack for turning abstract ideas into stimulating cinema — which is exactly what he does in Non-Fiction, a modern-day talkfest centering on the Parisian elite.

Since the 1800s, these cafes have flourished in Mumbai. They've helped keep alive the culture and cuisine of Parsis — Zoroastrians who fled Persia centuries ago. Now, that tradition is fading.

A slim book about an everyday woman's life in South Korea became a runaway bestseller (and a movie), tapping into a growing feminism in this punishingly patriarchal country. It's now out in English.

Here are some key points about what the latest moves by Beijing and Washington may mean for Hong Kong.

Megan DiFranco is an intensive care nurse at Cleveland Clinic Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights. In her 14 years on the job, she has never gone through anything like the coronavirus pandemic. Despite her experience treating severely ill patients, the level of intensity in caring for each patient with COVID-19 has ramped up the stress for health workers like DiFranco.

The government wants farmers to uproot coca plants, whose leaves are used to make cocaine — with the promise of money, seeds and technology to help raise everything from peppercorns to pigs.