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An Indian medical student in Sumy says she and classmates had to use snow for drinking water while they await hopeful evacuation to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The decision involving Abu Zubaydah, a terrorism detainee at Guantanamo Bay, likely will make it harder for victims to expose secret government misconduct in the future.

In March 2020, we asked experts in school disruptions what the long-range effects might be as COVID-19 closed schools. How did those predictions pan out?

As the climate warms, plants bloom earlier in the spring, overlap with other species and could even start growing in new locations. That's bad news for people with pollen allergies.

Six months after the Kabul airlift, the last Afghan refugees have left temporary camps at military bases in the U.S. But many families are still living in hotels while they wait for permanent housing.

Companies ranging from General Motors to UPS are exiting or reducing their operations in Russia as wide-ranging sanctions make it all but impossible to operate in the country.

"We don't even know that they are alive," two sisters with family in Mariupol are among the over 2 million people who have fled the Russian war in Ukraine. Many are passing through Lviv on their way.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with National Education Association President Becky Pringle about school staffing issues, and the burnout that has more teachers thinking about leaving their jobs.

As fears grow of a Russian invasion of his country, the Ukrainian president offered to meet with his Russian counterpart. The U.S. warned of swift sanctions against Russia if it moves into Ukraine.

The Belgian drama Playground unfolds at a school where 7-year-old Nora watches her brother being bullied. The Chadian film Lingui, the Sacred Bonds centers on a mother whose teen daughter is pregnant.