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A whistleblower says Facebook's algorithms could be stoking tensions and fanning ethnic violence in Ethiopia.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, about the escalating violence in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan.

Helena’s Jewish community has been without a local synagogue for decades. Fundraising is underway to buy back a synagogue that’s been owned by the Catholic Diocese since the 1980s.

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, rising tensions between Russia and the U.S. could have implications for the two nations' partnerships in space — particularly aboard the International Space Station.

House Speaker John Boehner was dealt a major defeat Thursday night. After spending most of the week trying to round up votes for his "Plan B" to extend tax cuts for virtually everyone, he pulled the measure without a vote. The clock keeps ticking toward the end of the year, when automatic tax increases and spending cuts are set to hit.

The Bush administration is facing key decisions on troop levels in Iraq. Juan Williams says President Bush is hesitant to increase U.S. troop strength to overwhelm the insurgency, due to polling that shows falling support for the war.

President Biden is back in Washington after visiting New Mexico for a briefing on wildfires which have now burned more than 900 square miles.

In Oregon's high desert, a more than 10,000-year-old lake is drying up. That doesn't have to happen. Summer Lake hosts millions of migratory birds annually, but its water is being diverted to farms.

Europe is facing a new reality: war on its doorstep. Europeans leaders call Russia's attack a blatant violation of international law, and they say a new set of sanctions are the harshest ever imposed.

The mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has accused Russian forces of firing on evacuation points and violating Wednesday's temporary ceasefire.