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Volker Schlondorff is an Academy Award-winning German filmmaker who has focused on many aspects of German culture and history, but vowed never to make a movie about concentration camps -- until now. The Ninth Day tells the story of a priest who is torn between what is best for the church and his people.

During the campaign and the transition period, Donald Trump outlined an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days in the White House. How's he doing, as that milestone approaches?

Venezuela's opposition party has called for a 48-hour general strike, which is starting Wednesday morning. Rachel Martin talks with reporter Andrew Rosati of Bloomberg.

After Israeli paratroopers captured Jerusalem, Jews celebrated reunification of the divided city and renewed access to the Western Wall. But many longtime residents of Jewish West Jerusalem say the city is united in theory only, and question the wisdom of holding land captured by military might 40 years ago.

A new study found that the risks apparently outweigh the benefits of taking a low-dose aspirin every day for otherwise healthy older people. But what about everyone else?

Thousands of nurses in Minnesota walked off the job Monday to protest being understaffed and overworked. The nurses are demanding among other things higher wages.

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day a year ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

Author Adam Brent Houghtaling has put together an encyclopedia of the best music to pair with melancholy moments.

Donatella Lorch, a freelance journalist in Kathmandu, gives NPR's Arun Rath an update on the effects of Saturday's devastating quake. She says people are taking it "hour by hour and day by day."

Britons are casting ballots in a referendum on whether the U.K. should leave the European Union. A vote to leave would have profound political and economic consequences for Great Britain and the EU.