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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with former U.S. NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder about the implications of imposing a no-fly zone in Ukraine in response to the growing humanitarian crisis.

Egyptian journalist Hisham Kassem talks with Steve Inskeep about the status of Ayman Nour. Nour is a pro-democracy candidate who challenged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in last year's elections. He is in now jail after being charged with fraud by the government.

A 21-year-old American soldier -- later discharged for a mental disorder -- has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, then shooting and killing her -- along with her mother, father and young sister. Josh White of The Washington Post tells Madeleine Brand about the incident.

Environmental groups plan to sue to protect the breeding ground for caribou and polar bears. But if a drilling lease is sold, it could make it harder for a future president to reverse the move.

There are contests in 13 states on Super Tuesday. The NPR politics podcast team looks at how that affects the campaigns' strategies, and if a day packed with primaries favors particular candidates.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about Russia-Turkey relations in light of the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey.

The aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo by Syrian regime and Russian warplanes has reached a new level of ferocity. The attacks killed hundreds, overwhelmed hospitals and destroyed neighborhoods.

A new NPR analysis of the presidential race shows an Electoral College map favoring Democrat Joe Biden, as President Trump is on defense in some of the states that typically skew towards the GOP.

A highway project in southern Colorado recently turned up seven previously unknown Native American archaeological sites. The road is going ahead anyway over objections from some tribal members.

Don Lessem was the dinosaur adviser for the first Jurassic Park, a job he says sounds more impressive than it was. His real big-dinosaur break happened years later, thanks to a blurry photo of a bone.