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Long before he became a presidential candidate and during his first term, Donald Trump made avoiding foreign wars a cornerstone of his agenda. But his position on foreign intervention has shifted.

The U.S. and other western countries have issued sanctions on Russian oil exports since 2022. The Planet Money team explains how the country's shadow fleet of aging oil tankers evades policing.

U.S. urges Americans across Middle East to leave as war with Iran intensifies, Congress expected to vote on Trump's war powers, voters head to polls for Senate primaries in North Carolina and Texas.

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration therapy — hailed as one of the most significant medical advances of the century.

In his new book, 97-year-old Robert Jay Lifton shares the "survivor wisdom" he's learned from those who've lived through terrible events — the Holocaust, Hiroshima, POW camps.

Calliope Holingue researches how the microbiome and mind affect each other. She's part of a growing field, exploring how that connection could ultimately improve treatments for mental conditions.

A new report confirms a deep decrease in the world's childhood death rate. But it takes note of what the authors call an "astronomically high" rate of death after hospitalization.

Globally, boys and young men made up two-thirds of all deaths among young people in 2019. A recent report finds that many such deaths in this "neglected" age group are preventable.

That's the perspective in new papers in Lancet Global Health that assess the nearly a quarter of a million studies on treatments for COVID-19.