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Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov speaks to NPR about the risks of attacks and nuclear disaster with Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia plant under Russian occupation.

Abortion is protected in Kansas, but a change to the state's constitution is on next month's ballot. In neighboring Missouri, abortion-rights activists are doing what they can to defeat the amendment.

Washington, D.C., is preparing for the return of streetcars to the nation's capital. It's been decades since the system shut down and workers have been laying new tracks. This week, hundreds of people lined up for a chance at a job on the line.

Protests are sweeping across Russia and hundreds have been detained. Demonstrators calling for opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be released. He was arrested last week, upon his return to Moscow.

President Biden visits Selma for the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Residents there are still recovering from tornadoes that ripped through the city in January.

Before the pandemic, the hajj pilgrimage drew millions each year to Islam's holy city of Mecca, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that observant Muslims pray toward five times a day.

Control of Soledar could allow Russia to cut off Ukrainian supply lines to nearby Bakhmut, another fiercely contested city seen as central to Russia's struggling efforts to control eastern Ukraine.

Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu teamed up with sound designer Martin Hernandez to create a unique soundscape for his new film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.

There are four mosques in the Russian capital Moscow, but the growing Muslim population struggles to find a place to pray. Some Muslims complain the issue of new mosques has been politicized.

Family members separated for months poured out onto the platform and embraced their loved ones in tearful, joyful reunions. Passengers gawked as they took in the destruction of Russia's occupation.