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All over Ukraine, war has made nighttime darker. Satellite imagery shows a significant dimming of lights since 2022. Darkness has spread indoors too, with power cuts becoming common during the war.

Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as thousands of "reduction in force" notices went out beginning April 1. To many it's the opposite of "government efficiency."

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Here's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.

The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

NPR speaks with Ramzi Kassem, a member of the legal team for Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, about her detention and arguments in her immigration hearing.

A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Some lawmakers are pushing to require that Medicaid recipients work in order to get or keep coverage, and some states already try to help them find jobs. But the effects of those efforts are unclear.

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

Trump and GOP members of Congress accuse the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. Trump plans a rescission, giving Congress 45 days to approve it or allow funding to be restored.

Images of Sudan after two years of civil war that have led to the world's biggest humanitarian crisis.

The memo could result in immigration judges deciding someone is not eligible for asylum without a hearing, and based solely on a lengthy and complex asylum request form.

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

Atlanta-based Cortland has agreed to settle claims with North Carolina and nine other states, though it denies wrongdoing. Cortland manages about 5,000 rental units at apartment communities in the Triangle and Charlotte.

State lawmakers could crack down on retailers who charge a fee for using credit cards instead of cash.

Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.

Books "overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory" are under new scrutiny following a memo issued by acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Derrick Anderson.