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In Venezuela, the uprising against President Nicolás Maduro may escalate. U.S. officials are backing efforts to remove Maduro from power.

NASA's six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what was billed as a 90-day mission. The plucky robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it.

Actor André Holland imagined professional basketball if athletes had real agency. So he teamed up with director Steven Soderburgh for a movie which imagines what that might look like.

The government is back in business – for now. Also, more Democratic candidates announced they are running for the highest office in the land.

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown hasn't decided to run for president yet. He's on a tour of early primary states, like New Hampshire, testing out a message focused on the working class.

Children's literature handed out some of its biggest awards this past week. And three Latina authors were recipients. We talk to them about what this moment means to them.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Tom Cotton about his book: Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery. Cotton served in Iraq and Afghanistan and as a platoon leader at Arlington.

Venezuela's president has been making enemies throughout the Americas with a collapsed economy that has produced millions of migrants. But he still has friends in the Caribbean.

Whether or not President Trump will deliver a traditional state of the union is in doubt because of the partial government shutdown. It's allowing Washington to reexamine a century-old tradition.

U.S. financial markets closed the week quietly after gyrating wildly. Overall, the markets have delivered gains since 2009.