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After months in space, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally scheduled to return home in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday evening.

To date, 127 legal cases have been filed against the Trump administration's actions since President Trump took office. The cases challenge an enormous range of subjects.

Writer and trailblazer Felice Picano has died at 81. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays and founded one of the U.S.'s first publishers focused LGBT writers.

The Trump administration is gutting an agency that funds Voice of America. For decades, the broadcaster reached audiences in countries that often offered no other free media -- including China.

The North Carolina legislature is currently considering a fourth disaster recovery bill to fund rebuilding efforts across the region after Hurricane Helene. The latest measure is expected to be for $530 million, the largest allocation of state money so far toward WNC Helene recovery.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender service members from the military.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

The decision sparked angry protests from bullfighting supporters and matadors, some of whom tried to breach a police barricade at the local Congress.

The United Nations has long been in the spotlight over allegations of child rape and other sexual abuses by its peacekeepers, especially by those based in Congo and the Central African Republic.

The antitrust lawsuit filed by the Professional Tennis Players' Association says the organizations that run the sport hold "complete control over the players' pay and working conditions."

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after spending nine months on the International Space Station. It was supposed to be an eight-day mission but hit a snag.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer and former Palestinian peace negotiator, about the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza.

Some local police are eagerly signing up to help ICE, but others are shying away, worried about the legal risks. NPR compares two neighboring counties on New York's Long Island.

Jack Fischer spent more than 100 days aboard the International Space Station in 2017. He described to NPR what being in space for so long does to the body and what it feels like to return home.

Stephen Capus, who leads Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, discusses why his organization is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a limited ceasefire in Ukraine, where Putin agreed to stop targeting Ukraine's energy facilities for 30 days. Hear about Kyiv's reaction.

Federal judge says USAID shutdown likely violated the Constitution, Ukraine reacts to Trump and Putin phone call on ceasefire deal, Gaza ceasefire ends as Israel launches airstrikes on the territory.

Beloved Honduran musician and champion of Garifuna music, Aurelio Martínez, has died at age 55.

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

A federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk and his DOGE team likely violated the Constitution when they effectively shut down USAID. Trump said the administration will appeal the decision.