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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mauricio Cantor, behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University, about his study on how humans and dolphins work together to fish in a southern Brazilian city.

A big ruling on whether poor criminal defendants have the right to a lawyer came this week. A judge in Washington state finds two cities have systematically violated the rights of indigent defendants by providing them with lawyers who spent less than one hour on their cases.

Russian and Ukrainian forces have been fighting over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Both sides have suffered horrific losses. Russia is trying to encircle Ukrainian forces still in the city.

Wichita Falls may soon be one of the first cities in the nation where half the drinking water comes directly from wastewater. It will save water, but some residents find the process tough to swallow.

Citigroup stock has moved higher after the government announced a second effort to shore up confidence in the troubled bank. The Treasury Department will backstop the company's bad assets while providing an additional $20 billion in emergency loans.

In his novel She Will Build Him a City, Raj Kamal Jha weaves the reality he sees as a journalist in New Delhi — where many gravitate looking for a better future — into a fictional, magical world.

While a convoy of its fighters and families rambles through Syria, the Islamic State is losing ground in important cities to forces backed by the U.S. and others from the Syrian government.

Traffic is stopped at the nerve center of the country's federal government. It's part of a standoff between the government and two opposition politicians who accuse the government of corruption.

Ukraine says it is struggling to contain a new Russian offensive in a northeastern border region. Its army is short on troops and ammunition. How has Russia gained momentum in this war?

Two months after Iraqi and U.S. forces pushed ISIS out of the Iraqi city of Mosul, there is still widespread destruction, hundreds of thousands of displaced people and questions about who's in charge.