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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Polish young adults about how the war in Ukraine and the influx of refugees is affecting their country.

The first recorded sighting of a river otter in the Detroit River in more than 100 years is an indicator that the environment is improving.

As people get more of their entertainment from the Internet, the amount of data flowing in and out of the house is going to grow. Telecommunications companies and communities are looking for ways to make "broadband" even broader -- and more affordable.

Researchers have confirmed that cooking meat too long over a dry, intense heat creates small amounts of cancer-causing chemicals. Unfortunately, that's just the sort of flavor-enhancing fire you get on a backyard barbecue. What's a summer chef to do?

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Carr Osborn from Las Vegas. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KNPR in Las Vegas.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joins European and Mideast leaders to talk about the conflict in Lebanon at a conference in Rome. Proposals to end the fighting have focused on deploying an international military force to keep the peace between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

The latest NPR poll took the pulse of likely voters in the 50 most competitive House districts across the country. Forty of those seats are currently held by Republicans. The results suggest that the GOP's grasp on the majority may be fragile.

Closing arguments are heard in the lawsuit against Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. Brown is accused of plagiarism by co-authors of the nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Katherine Rushton of The Book Seller Magazine talks with Robert Siegel.

The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler believes in speaking up. She says when we name the things that make us uncomfortable or afraid, then demons are faced, silences are broken and freedom is won.

E.J. Dionne, a columnist for the Washington Post and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times talk with Robert Siegel about the situation in Iraq three years after the U.S.-led invasion.