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May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. This year's theme is "one million more" — reflecting a shortage of midwives.

Two years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is exhausted, but shows no sign of stopping its fight.

Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress. Paul Thomas Anderson received best director. Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first ever casting award.

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Health departments, universities and nonprofit grantees had spent months adapting to President Trump's executive orders. They say the funding cut was completely unexpected.

Climate journalist and author Nathaniel Rich's new book "Cloudthief" is about an off-the-grid hacker and a struggling climate journalist who team up to rob a data center in Oklahoma.

In the second part of Morning Edition's series on Latin American cities, NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the dark political climate of Guatemala City. The capital city, like Guatemala itself, has been scarred by decades of bloodshed, coups, and authoritarian governments.

City Manager Tim Gleason requested the additional staff person to help manage the city’s growth and strengthen government accountability, he told the city council last week.

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen discusses the battle to keep print news alive in small-town America. Cullen runs Iowa's Storm Lake Times, along with his brother, the paper's publisher.