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A spokesman for Ukraine's air force said the balloons had plain metal triangles suspended with string below them, saying that was enough to appear like an incoming missile or drone on radars.

Eye-opening testimony from a top scientist offers a useful primer on the role social media may play in the teen mental health crisis.

Residents are worried about environmental and health impacts after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed earlier this month and officials evacuated the area to conduct a controlled burn.

Parts of Iowa are in for as much as 6 to 8 inches of snow today – a little more in some areas south of I-80. Former Vice President Mike Pence was in Cedar Rapids yesterday, supporting parents who’ve sued a nearby school district over its transgender affirming policies. And 110 families in central Iowa will get $500 a month in a new program aimed at reducing poverty.

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Bozoma Saint John about her memoir: The Urgent Life.

Hundreds of worried people gathered to hear state officials tell them that testing so far has shown local air is safe to breathe and to promise that safety testing of the air and water would continue.

The air defense center was created in the 1950s, as a counter to a rival superpower. Now NORAD is front and center again, prompting questions about what it does — and how it copes with modern threats.

The U.S. military started tracking more airborne objects it calls "low speed clutter" after shooting down the Chinese balloon. The National Weather Service says it launches about 184 balloons a day.

The U.N.'s humanitarian aid and refugee agencies are seeking $5.6 billion to help millions of people in Ukraine and countries that have taken in fleeing Ukrainians in the wake of Russia's invasion.

With so many killed suddenly in the quake, Turkey faces the challenge of burying tens of thousands of people. Multiple funerals are happening at once and the process of burying the dead is constant.