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Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island about the fight in Somalia against the terrorist network al-Shabab. Reed just visited East Africa.

The U.N. Security Council Saturday approved a resolution calling for the 30-day cease-fire, following one of the bloodiest weeks of aerial bombardment in the civil war that has devastated the country.

Al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate announced on Tuesday that its leader Nasir al-Wahishi was killed by a U.S. drone strike last week. He was also the second-in-command to overall chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Game day can bring butterflies to even the toughest athletes. Nerves also follow the families of U.S. women's soccer players. Some pace, while others mutter coping rituals that help them get through the game.

Francisco Alarcon was an important Mexican-American poet who influenced generations of Chicano writers, including the current U.S. poet laureate. Alarcon died of cancer last week.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Yahoo News chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff about how Russian trolls were ordered to watch Neflix's House of Cards show to understand Americans and U.S. politics.

A new book tells how the blinding of a black Army veteran after World War II by a South Carolina police chief helped lead to the desegregation of the U.S. Army.

President Obama speaks to the Cuban people about the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. One sign of how that relationship is evolving? A U.S. versus Cuba baseball game.

Top national security officials announced Wednesday that Iran and Russia have obtained voter registration data and are trying to influence the U.S. presidential election.

With over 100 large wildfires burning, mostly on the West Coast, firefighting resources are so exhausted that the U.S. and Canadian militaries are being called in to attack the fires from the air.