An American doctor journals her daily life as a volunteer in al-Shifa hospital, which was once Gaza's largest medical facility.
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Hadeel Al-Shalchi/NPRFar-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. -
Merie W. Wallace/20th Century FoxThe 1995 adaptation of Terry McMillan's novel celebrated the beauty of Black sisterhood.
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Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold. -
Also in theaters this week, Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a meta reimagining of Anaconda, Amanda Seyfried in a Shaker origin story, and Ralph Fiennes plays a World War I-era choirmaster. -
Mail theft can happen around the holidays, but sometimes, instead of getting a new iPad, the thief swipes a mail order medicine. Here's what to do about it. -
The DOJ released tens of thousands of new documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Guard must stay out of Chicago. -
The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland remain unresolved. -
The Atlantic hurricane season produced a normal number of storms, compared to more frequent storms in recent years. But the storms that did form were huge. -
Religious leaders started getting together after Oct. 7, 2023, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Arab-Jewish violence that erupted after a previous conflict in Gaza two years earlier. -
DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct. -
Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. -
AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
