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Exiles from Castro's Cuba are using new technology to help them find their former homes in the island nation. Some file claims against frozen Cuban bank accounts in the United States for their losses. But coffers are running low after a few large payouts.

The Ghanaian singer would vocalize and dance all night long to send off the departed. On the verge of his long awaited first trip to perform abroad, he has died, reportedly of COVID.

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with SCOTUSblog reporter Amy Howe about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's possible influence on the high court, if the full Senate votes to confirm her this week.

By a 6-to-3 vote the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an Oregon law that allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of narcotics to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. The physician-assisted suicide law is the only one in the country.

A growing number of kids in Texas are being suspended or expelled for relatively minor, non-violent offenses. But researchers say that this "zero tolerance" approach leads more kids to drop out.

A Turkish columnist once hailed the country's leader as a champion of democracy. Now he joins many Turks in gloom and disappointment over the country's course.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn't have enough votes to become speaker when his party takes control of the chamber in Congress. Plus, a new federal budget.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Democratic political strategist Karen Finney about the ongoing negotiations between the White House and Congress to pass a comprehensive infrastructure bill.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is served a subpoena. And the President Biden's State of the Union Address is making an impact around the country.