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A former senior member of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has been found dead. Denis Donaldson, expelled by the party in December after admitting he spied for Britain, had been shot in the head. Melissa Block talks with Gerry Moriarty, Northern Ireland editor for the Irish Times.

The White House plans to make it easier for families to visit relatives in Cuba and increase visa processing on the island, reversing some of former President Trump's policies.

Angry over a bill that would crack down on illegal immigrants, marchers support a rival measure that would give legal status to most undocumented immigrants. They're getting a big push from Spanish-language media.

The Buffalo neighborhood that was attacked by a white supremacist has struggled for years with violence and poverty. Calls by politicians for the community to come together were met with skepticism.

Ohio may not be the first place you think of when it comes to making wine, but a vintner in Cincinnati is turning out respectable lines of vino from a Cincinnati garage. His secret: grapes frozen and trucked in from California's Sonoma and Mendocino valleys.

George Mason University is the Cinderella team of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The 11th seed Patriots stunned top-ranked Connecticut on Sunday to make it to the Final Four next weekend in Indianapolis.

One open-source research team said its initial findings lent support to Palestinian witnesses who said Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Adolphus Belk, Jr., a professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina, who says it is possible that the alleged shooter can be prosecuted under the act.

Dubai, the small Arab sheikhdom behind the U.S. ports controversy, is one of the fastest-growing and most cosmopolitan cities in the world. But diplomats and others say there's a dark side to the economic boom -- poorly paid foreign construction workers and widespread prostitution.

A British magazine about business and global politics seems an unlikely hit among American readers. But The Economist is defying expectations. It has doubled its readership in the U.S. since 1993.