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Stocks were down sharply on Thursday in a selloff that took the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1,000 points.

The influential sibling to North Korea's secretive leader has also met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

American troops came under artillery fire in Syria this week. We have the latest on the fighting there and the U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war.

The Dow rebounded Friday, closing up more than 300 points. But the index lost about 5 percent for the week as the markets focused on inflation and ballooning government debt.

In April 2019, we saw the first image of a black hole ... ever. Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler explains how the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope achieved such a feat.

Also: Wall Street opens higher after a huge loss on Thursday; a significant winter storm pounds the upper Plains and Midwest; and L.L. Bean dumps its lifetime return policy.

There's Bollywood-style singing, dancing and a scene of the Oscar-winning actress riding a white horse. Indians are calling out its stereotypes and cliched portrayals of their customs and culture.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Denmark's first tech ambassador, Casper Klynge. Denmark has decided to elevate technological diplomacy to a priority in its foreign and security policy.

In Missouri, the state's embattled governor and GOP legislature are struggling to fund basic services, such as roads, higher education institutions, and health care for disabled. Even some Republicans are worried that the state is following a path that Kansas took earlier in the decade, when the GOP starkly cut taxes — and later had to raise them.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Jeremy Bash, former chief Democratic counsel for the House Intelligence Committee. He talks about the implications for how the committee is separating themselves along party lines.