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India produces some of the world's greatest engineers and scientists, but some of its most influential and educated people also consult the stars. Pandit Ajai Bhambi is one of an army of astrologers dispensing advice to politicians about the general elections, which end May 16.

NPR's Juana Summers talks to Antoine Renard, of the U.N. World Food Programme, about the increasing risk of famine in Gaza as Israel's aid blockade continues.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It's his second day of testimony on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The weekend storms took everyone by surprise, including the National Weather Service. So how did it happen and what did they see?

There’s no single reason for the slight drop in opioid overdose deaths across most of the U.S. last year. But finding new ways to make Narcan available in public, 24 hours a day, is helping.

At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

Just as we rank hurricanes and earthquakes, officials have developed a five-phase scale to rank food crises.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to "March For Our Lives" chief strategist Matt Deitsch about the preliminary findings released by a commission to examine the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mohamed Elnaiem, a Ph.D. student who has been protesting in Khartoum, Sudan, about their decision to continue protesting even as violence worsens.

Istanbul is recovering from another attack on its citizens. At least 39 people were killed in an armed attack in the early hours of New Year's Day. A manhunt is on to find the main suspect.