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While overseas this week, President Obama has weighed in multiple times on the ongoing debate in the U.S. over Syrian refugees — often using pointed rhetoric and jabbing at his political opponents.

Marta Karolyi and her husband, Bela, have helped develop the top women gymnasts in the world since the '70s, first in Romania and now the U.S. At 73, she's now ready to join her husband in retirement.

"Donors will no longer be asked to declare if they have had sex with another man, making the criteria for blood donation gender neutral and more inclusive," the National Health Service explains.

The Rev. Kenneth Hendricks faces charges in Ohio — where he was previously based — of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, a federal crime.

World leaders are gathered in Poland this week to discuss climate change. The U.S. hosted a meeting on coal, a highly polluting fuel, that many developing nations depend on.

Iran's president has rebuffed offers of a dialogue about the country's nuclear program with the United States and five of its allies, according to reports. But the foreign ministry and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have offered more moderate responses. Melissa Block talks with Time magazine reporter Azadeh Moaveni about Iran's reaction to the new package of incentives and penalties, as well as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's offer to engage in talks with Iran, if the country suspends its uranium enrichment program.

After 14 years of Conservative rule, Britons elected a new prime minister, Keir Starmer, and Parliament dominated by the Labour Party, which hadn't won a national election since Tony Blair, nearly 20 years.

The U.S. will pull hundreds of troops amid air strikes and gunfire from Turkish-backed forces. "We're preparing, waiting for the order," a U.S. official close to the troops on the ground told NPR.

Foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country, the Trump administration announced Friday, in a surprise change to a longstanding policy.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Kim Marten, professor of political science at Barnard College and director of U.S. Russian Relations Program at Columbia, ahead of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow.