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The bombs fell on a military aviation repair facility only about 50 miles from the border of Poland, a NATO country.

Continuing a week-long series on problems common throughout Latin America, NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the prevalent black market economy in Caracas, Venezuela. Confronted with a shortage of jobs and economic hardship, many residents of the metropolitan capital area have resorted to joining the so-called "informal economy" in order to make ends meet.

In 2017, philanthropist Agnes Gund sold a $165-million dollar painting to create a fund to support formerly incarcerated artists. "No Justice Without Love" celebrates the grantee-artists.

Over the next few months, the city of New York plans to extend the citywide ban on smoking in public areas and places of employment to its jails. Linda talks with Tom Antenen, the deputy commissioner of the New York City Corrections Department, about the effect this will have on inmates at New York's Riker's Island facility, which houses some eighty percent of the city's prison population.

The majority of the people who were intending to file for exemptions are in the Los Angeles Police Department.

NPR's Barbara Mantel reports on how New Yorkers are bracing -- and plotting -- in the event the city's bus and subway workers go on strike. The contract for the city's transport workers union ends Sunday, and workers are threatening a walkout if the city's transportation authority doesn't raise wages enough.

A combination of rains and high tides is once again threatening the "floating city" of Venice, Italy. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, some Venetians also feel that the soul of the city is also under attack -- young people are leaving, and the city is almost entirely dependent on tourism.

U.S. civilian administrator Jay Garner expects an interim government to be running Iraq by the middle of May. The country holds its first election in the northern city of Mosul, where tribal and ethnic leaders elect a local city council and mayor who will run the city alongside the U.S. military. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Comic Rita Rudner sets a humorous mystery novel, Turning the Tables, in Las Vegas, where she is a regular performer. The book is set in a spectacular casino called Heaven, guarded by St. Peters with Glocks beneath their wings.

Officials say it's an essential tool to keep communities safe. Critics say it unfairly targets Black and Brown communities.