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Aircraft tried to drop aid to a Syrian city cut off by fighting. Matthew Hollingworth of the World Food Program tells David Greene that because the wind changed direction, the food missed the mark.

Nationwide protests continued in Venezuela on Thursday against President Nicolas Maduro and his government's handling of the country's economic crisis.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Noam Levey, who covers national health care policy for The Los Angeles Times, about why essential health benefits became such a sticking point in the health care debate.

The United Kingdom Parliament debated on Monday over whether President Trump should be allowed to make a state visit to the country later this year.

Rufus Sewell is seemingly everywhere these days — on stage and on the small screen, including Amazon's alternate-history series The Man in the High Castle, in which he plays an American Nazi leader.

A group of historians is working to enhance the history of Latinx people in Wisconsin. That history starts with with Rafael Baez, the first documented Latinx person to live in Milwaukee, and extends to present day.

There are burials across southern Lebanon, as Lebanese are finally able to recover the bodies of those hastily buried in mass graves during the fighting. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah killed more than 1,200 Lebanese. In all, about 250 bodies are retrieved and reburied Friday, many of them in the southern port city of Tyre.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Sophie Bjork-James, a post-doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University who has been following white supremacist groups online for nearly a decade. They discuss the origins of Trump's tweet, a GIF of Trump pummeling CNN. Someone by a vulgar username posted what is believed to be the original GIF on Reddit, five days ago. The user has a history of writing hatefully about African-Americans, women and Muslims.

Health care is a top issue for voters heading into the midterm elections. The arguments on each side have gotten heated, particularly over pre-existing conditions and government-run care.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Caitlin Jewitt, assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, about differences between caucuses and primaries, and why some states are favoring primaries.