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In January, 1st Sgt. John Campbell and his wife Paula were preparing for his deployment to Iraq -- and for the arrival of twins. A month ago, while John was in Bagdhad, daughters Taryn and Taylor were born. John recently returned for an all-too brief visit with his new family.

In the second installment of a weeklong series on the end of the Vietnam War, Michael Sullivan looks at Hanoi, once the capital of North Vietnam and now the capital of a nation reunified under communist rule.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Nasdaq securities exchange announces it will acquire the firm Instinet, which owns an important electronic trading system. The deal is valued at more than $1.8 billion, and follows the New York Stock Exchange's merger with an electronic trading firm.

At the New World Symphony in Miami, the challenge for young classical musicians finishing a three-year program is to find a new job in their profession. Ari Shapiro has watched the progress of symphony members over the past year. In the last of a three-part series, he reports on the challenges of transition.

As testimony to the inexplicable, irresistible power of love, commentator Geoffrey Grosshans offers the following romantic fable from the natural kingdom.

U.S. investigators blamed the 2019 crash on the pilot's decision to keep flying into worsening weather, and they accused regulators of lax oversight of air tours that are popular with tourists.

Writer and student Detrice Jones reads from "Just Surviving Another Day," her semi-autobiographical story about a teen struggling with her parents' crack addiction. The story is featured in The Cocaine Chronicles, a new collection of short stories about the drug's impact on America.

In the latest report for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions, NPR's Susan Stamberg travels to India to talk with Ravi Shankar, the world-famous sitar guru. Shankar turns 85 this week.

Saul Bellow, the award-winning author of books including Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March, died Tuesday at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 89.