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Teachers in Warsaw work to address student-held trauma in classrooms after the Polish school system absorbed tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugee students.

The popular Burmese rock band Iron Cross is using music to challenge the nation's infamously repressive regime. Writer and radio producer Scott Carrier recently visited Burma, and he reports that in the great tradition of rock and roll, Iron Cross is taking on Burma's military government with song.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reacted with outrage on the Senate flood Thursday to the USA Today cover story about National Security Agency (NSA) efforts to collect domestic phone call records. Noah Adams talks to David Welna about the reaction to the news on Capitol Hill.

Officials in Burma say that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is going to remain in detention for another year. The 61-year-old Suu Kyi has spent roughly 10 of the last 15 years in prison or under house arrest after the military refused to accept her party's landslide victory in 1990 elections.

Jose Gonzalez is a singer-songwriter from Sweden, born to Argentinian parents. He sings quiet songs accompanied by his beautiful playing on a nylon-stringed guitar.

Goleo VI, the official mascot for soccer's World Cup, is a flop. The pantsless lion has been described as looking like the "out-of-wedlock child of Chewbacca and Alf." Children and soccer fans disapprove. They're not crazy about his talking soccer ball, Pille, either.

NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from Warsaw on how Ukrainian children are being educated in Poland.

A divided Senate, led by a divided Republican party, begins the debate on overhauling immigration policy. Whatever the Senate comes up with, it will have to reconcile the legislation with a very restrictive House bill.

California and Great Britain agree to become partners in the fight against global warming. The deal was sealed at the port of Long Beach, where British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to share clean-air technology and research.

Col. Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, has built a reconnaissance and sabotage team to target Russian forces. His ultimate goal: free his family village from Russian control.

Lilia Nguyen's perception of everything around her changed when she went to the border to help Ukrainian refugees shortly after the war began. The change has been felt by other young Poles.

Jeff Goldblum recently returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa., to star alongside his new girlfriend in a two-week run of The Music Man. Directors Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache filmed Goldblum's escape from celebrity, resulting in a genre-bending documentary with appearances by Ed Begley, Jr., Illeana Douglas and Moby. Goldblum talks about Pittsburgh, which he produced.

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is facing the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Russian soldier could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old unarmed civilian in the head.

Michael White, political editor of Britain's Guardian newspaper, discusses British reaction to Prime Minister Tony Blair's meeting with President Bush.

Negro League baseball legend Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe died Thursday at the age of 103. Radcliffe played for more than 15 teams in the Negro Leagues from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Melissa Block talks to Kyle P. McNary, author of Ted 'Double Duty' Radcliffe: 36 Years Of Pitching and Catching In Baseball's Negro Leagues.

Russia's giant air force hasn't done it much good in Ukraine. The Senate is to vote on a bill codifying Roe V. Wade into law. Firefighters in New Mexico struggle to contain a wildfire.

Russia has an air force more than 10 times larger than Ukraine's. But Ukraine's fighter pilots and air defense crews still control the air space over most of the country.

Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova says 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin shot and killed an unarmed man while fleeing from Ukrainian defense forces. He's in custody and could face life in prison.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

As opposition leaders struggle to restore order in Kyrgzstan, the state-controlled media in neighboring China has shown more images than expected -- with manipulated commentary. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.