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After 20 years of apparent stability in turbulent West Africa, Mali is now battling dual crises: a rebellion in the north, and a military coup in the south. There are reports of gross human rights abuses, as well as fears that the Islamist-controlled north is fast becoming a terrorist safe haven.

There's new controversy over the New York Police Department's intelligence-gathering tactics after documents surfaced detailing information on Newark mosques and Muslim-owned businesses. Activists see it as an overly broad investigation of law-abiding Muslims, while local officials are upset by the department's reach outside New York City.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg believes there's value in writing by hand — but he doesn't see why the letters have to connect. "You may as well dictate what song we all have to sing in the shower," he says.

Just six days out from the final day of voting, both Harris and Trump are hitting the campaign trail hard. Trump is deflecting controversy that arose from his Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.

Sgt. Chris Cunningham has served five tours in Afghanistan, surviving some of the past decade's most horrific fighting. These days, his excitement about war has been replaced by a grim wisdom — and the heavy responsibility of teaching Afghan soldiers and honoring fallen comrades.

The center-right European People's Party faces off with its Hungarian partners that keep bashing Brussels and migrants.

An encampment of homeless people in Seattle caused an uproar in the area. One woman who lived across the street took a unique approach to the situation.

As the online world advances, it's become harder to distinguish news from propaganda. In Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload, Tom Rosenstiel argues that news consumers need to learn to vet information in the same way journalists do.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ben Domenech, founder of The Federalist, and political consultant Josh Wolf about why Democrats and Republicans have responded to the Mueller report differently.

As newsgathering and reporting intensify, diversity, inclusion and representation appear to have flatlined in the last decade.

Journalists have walked out of two dozen newsrooms over layoffs, budget cuts and fraught contract talks in just the past few weeks. All of them belong to the leading newspaper union, the NewsGuild.

The U.S. has lost more than 120,000 people since the coronavirus started sickening Americans five months ago. Here we remember a few of those who continued working during the pandemic, serving others.

The opening cut of Eyes On The Lines offers a chooglin' mission statement scrawled on the back of a bar receipt.

Film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at the advertising lines used to attract movie-goers.

Many Ukrainians continue to leave their coal mining towns, with the front line of the war with Russia nearby.

It's no crime for a song to be anodyne, but LCD Soundsystem made a career out of barely skirting that line.

The order came after the Israeli military said it was fired upon beyond the yellow truce line.

As Americans spend more time on their phones, behavioral economists are studying the line between a habit and an addiction.

Russians lined up at ATM machines but there are few other signs of reaction to Western economic sanctions.

A Ukrainian family fled their home and now are stuck on the Ukrainian side of the border with Poland in an endless line.