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Reporting stories about kids can be fascinating: how they learn, why play is important, what makes a healthy classroom. But the beat is anything but child's play, as politics weigh heavy.

Ballistic missiles tore into five districts of the Ukrainian capital before dawn Saturday. President Trump is now walking back a promised boost to Ukraine's missile defense systems.

Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this week at the age of 86.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Paul Yoon about his new novel, "Etna," and its main character, a dog who becomes part of a war in an unnamed country.

It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.

Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.

The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad is one of a handful of service members who've recently died in the conflict with Iran. Her family says she knew from a young age she wanted to serve in the military.

As Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed vie for the Democratic nomination, voters are debating which way the party should go: establishment or insurgent; progressive or more moderate; new media or old.