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The talks come as Israel signals it may soon launch an invasion of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. The talks were expected to center on a plan that would pause the fighting for up to six weeks.

Captain Alicia White's move to the Public Integrity Bureau went into effect on Feb. 11, officials say. She is one of the six officers involved in Freddie Gray's death, none of whom were convicted.

Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.

She has been fighting for her honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force for 60 years. Now that she has won it, NPR's Scott Simon reflects on her career and the Lavender Scare.

The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It's the biggest diamond found since 1905. It weighs approximately half a kilogram.

Morgan, who turns 35 in July, helped lead the U.S. to a gold medal in 2012 and World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019. But the team has since struggled, and the Olympic roster will feature younger players.

The number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to at least 21, while dozens of boys remain unaccounted for.

The Aetna Foundation granted $40,000 to an urban farm, farmers market, and health clinic to educate people and provide food resources.

What happened when the Cuban pianist Omar Sosa met with a Santería high priest? He found his life calling.

The Polish player emerged victorious after less than an hour of gameplay.

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine made by the Broward County Sheriff's Office for sting operations between 1988 and 1990.

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

Democrats’ efforts to break the Republican veto-proof majority in the legislature appear to have yielded one additional seat.

"Moon Trees" are starting to grow on Earth. They got that name because as seeds they spent some time in space.

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. The film won two Oscars and Hussey won a Golden Globe for best new actress for her part as Juliet.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." These words, penned by Thomas Jefferson more than 240 years ago, continue to inspire many Americans. And yet they were written by a man who owned hundreds of slaves, and fathered six children by an enslaved woman. This week, we talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the contradictions in Jefferson's life — and how those contradictions might resonate in our own lives.

Maryland's attorney general has released a report on clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

After a dry spell, heavy rains in Florida this week have finally brought out the frogs. We'll hear from them.

Aquatic creatures of very different sizes swim at the same relative depth when traveling long distances.

Money allocated by North Carolina lawmakers earlier this year has started making its way to farmers in WNC.