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Activists continued protests in the German city as the summit of the world's major economic powers got underway.

We look ahead to this week’s G20 summit in Germany. Global trade, climate change, security, and – maybe – the future of the West, all there.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate stayed about where it has been, dropping just a tenth of a percentage point to 4.7 percent. All in all, the report builds on strong jobs gains in January.

An anti-piracy group says the Aris 13 oil tanker, which has an eight-member Sri Lankan crew, sent a distress call Monday and "then it disappeared."

A late-season storm has been crippling travel and knocking out power across the region. The hardest hit areas will likely be digging out of more than 2 feet of snow before the storm tapers off.

Cleveland City Council held a six-hour meeting Tuesday on a proposal to spend public money on expanding Quicken Loans Arena. This upcoming Monday, the measure will go before council’s finance committee, which is typically the last stop before a vote on the floor. The deal would extend Cleveland’s admissions tax for another 11 years, up until 2034. An estimated $88 million in revenue from collections at the Q would help pay down the debt on renovation work there.

Amnesty International says as many as 13,000 opponents of Bashar Assad have been hanged outside Damascus. NPR's Scott Simon wonders why any Syrian refugee who opposes the regime would return home.

The international aid convoy reached Daraya less than a month after government forces turned away a previous delivery attempt.

After the shooting death of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the living conditions and deaths of other animals, such as the ones we raise for food.

When he launched his plan last spring, brewery CEO Xavier Vanneste said it was "no longer sustainable" to rely on trucks to cope with its growing production levels.