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President Trump hailed his diplomacy with North Korea's leader for winning their freedom. Several countries are fighting in Syria and the conflict there between Israel and Iran has heated up.

NPR's Kathryn Fink and Jordan Marie Smith talk about why Broadcast News still resonates in conversations about women and ambition.

President Trump's team of lawyers got into the meat of their defense against impeachment in the Senate trial on Monday.

Michael Hearst, best known as co-founder of One Ring Zero, has a new album that tells the stories of extraordinary people.

The U.K.'s new prime minister's promise to honor Brexit has some voters in Scotland renewing calls for independence

It was a tense week for the city of Boston and the nation, as a normally peaceful event was disrupted by a terrible act of terrorism and the hunt was on to find the perpetrators. NPR's Jeff Brady reviews the week's events, from the bombing at the marathon to the dramatic capture of the suspect.

Under President Obama, fossil fuel opponents successfully blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Now the keep-it-in-the-ground movement faces new challenges with the election of Donald Trump.

John Hinckley Jr. is being released from prison 35 years after he attempted to kill Ronald Reagan. He is one of several who aimed at a president and missed.

And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees.

Amy Tan's fans will find familiar themes in her new novel, The Valley of Amazement: mothers and daughters, multi-generational secrets, Chinese-American identity. But Jane Ciabattari says the new work, which centers on an American madam in Shanghai and her courtesan daughter, is more sophisticated than Tan's previous novels.