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About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.

Without a cease-fire, Egypt can't give aid to Gazans struggling to survive. And, Biden is expected to ask Congress for money to help Israel and Ukraine.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ben Vinson lll, the new president of Howard University, a historically Black institution, about his vision for his tenure.

The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.

Rite Aid said it was arranging for payment of wages and other costs as usual, though some "underperforming" stores among its more than 2,100 pharmacies in 17 states will be closed.

The 71-year-old man accused in the fatal stabbing of the 6-year-old boy in Illinois, which also seriously wounded his mother, was motivated by the Israel-Hamas war, officials say.

At stake are Poland's legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the same region around Herat, which was devastated by a previous temblor on October 7.

Israel says it is preparing to invade Gaza with ground forces but the timeline is unclear.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Iran expert Mehrzad Boroujerdi about the relationship between Israel and Iran.