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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday. The State Department declined to comment to NPR.

Author Chrystia Freeland says economic inequality is growing by leaps and bounds. She charts the rise of billionaire plutocrats and wonders what the concentration of wealth means for the rest of us.

Earth's crowded — and remote — spots are highlighted in entries to the 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.

Five teachers were inducted into the National Teacher Hall of Fame this year and NPR's Claudio Sanchez sat down with them to get their take on what it means to be a teacher.

Just as punk rockers broke the rules in the 1970s, so did a slew of equally rebellious singers and their groups a generation earlier. Rockin' Bones, a new CD collection, features the music of 1950s rockabilly artists who were the iconoclasts of their day.

Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, is the man most in charge of getting Republicans elected to Congress. He says he does not sense an anti-incumbent mood among voters. Most voters approve of the job their own representatives are doing, he says.

One of the largest wildfires in Southern California's history is still claiming huge areas of forest land north of Los Angeles. The Day Fire, which started by accident on Labor Day, already has consumed nearly 200,000 acres. More than 4,200 firefighters are on the front lines of the blaze.

Abbott Labs, FannieMae, IBM and Bristol-Myers Squibb are high on the list of the 100 best companies for working mothers, according to Working Mother magazine. Carol Evans of Working Mother Media, the magazine's parent company, offers details on the report.

Puerto Rican band Buscabulla discusses how they made the song "Andrea" with rapper Bad Bunny, and what it means for pop music to raise awareness about intimate partner violence.

This week, we make a triumphant return to the Bay Area, with the help of Ear Hustle's Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor. We ask them three questions about rodeos, or Steer Hustles.