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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department, who says Russia is accusing U.S. and Ukraine of preparing biological weapons.

Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.

As Ukraine continues to fight the Russians, its military will require more help. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Mac, an adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about U.S. assistance.

Host Renee Montagne talks with photographer Arnold Newman. An exhibition of Newman's work is on display at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. During his career, Newman has photographed some of the most notable people in the world; from Francisco Franco to Truman Capote. He's also photographed every American President from Kennedy to Clinton. Newman is credited with creating a unique photographic style called "environmental" portraits.

In the first of an occasional series on Young People and Religion, Lynn Neary reports on members of Generation X who are filling two very different churches in Seattle. One is a borrowed space in which traditional doctrine is celebrated to a rock music beat. The other uses ancient ritual but adheres to less traditional teachings.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on a 1946 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Mexico. Families traveled south from the U.S. to help stop the epidemic. Now in their 70's and 80's, they still get together each year to remember the work that took them to some of the most remote places in Mexico.

25-year-old Max Moran is a former foster child and outspoken advocate for foster care reform in New York City. Weekend All Things Considered first met Max two years ago; he's now poised to graduate from Hunter College in New York with a Master's degree in social work.

And now for something really challenging, yet deceptively simple. It's in a new book, "Introduction to Ecological Psychology, a Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting and Cognizing," by Jeffrey Wagman of Illinois State University and Julia Blau of Central Connecticut State University.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Fred Kagan of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute about U.S. intelligence in the war in Ukraine.

Misha Smetana lives in Kyiv, and has stayed there throughout Russian attacks on Ukraine. He tells NPR's Scott Detrow what that's been like, and about the communities forming between people who stayed.