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The recent collapse of a high-profile Chinese oil deal in Afghanistan sheds light on the often opaque relationship between Beijing and the Taliban.

Israel and Iran continue to exchange airstrikes with a focus on energy infrastructure. President Trump says Israel acted alone in striking a key gas field and better not do it again.

There was as much drama off the field with major new contracts, a police altercation and some key injuries.

The volcanologist on the island of Vanuatu who walks barefoot over cooled lava fields tells NPR's Don Gonyea how to see nature at its most primeval.

Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR.

Mexico appears willing to adopt U.S. terms on a number of key changes to its border policy. Also, a new poll on abortion, and automakers are talking about emissions standards.

On April 15, 1947, a young Black man named Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and officially broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Our observance of National Poetry Month concludes this week with poems from two armed conflicts. Linda Hughes of Texas Christian University reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade," written during the Crimean War in 1854. Niall Ferguson of New York University and Jesus College, Oxford, reads a selection of poems from the First World War: A.E. Housman's "Grenadier" and "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"; Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"; and John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields."

Illinois State University is firing its baseball coach.Athletics Director Larry Lyons said Tuesday that coach Bo Durkac worked very hard and was well…

At a meet in Pennsylvania, Justin DeLuzio was hit by one of the deer crossing a field. He tells a local TV station that he was knocked down and bruised. In a triumph of will, he got up and finished.