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Law enforcement officers look at a memorial Thursday following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Texas school shooter entered Robb Elementary unobstructed, police say

Officials in Texas release more information, while Americans across the nation continue to express shock and grief at the massacre.

Animal sexuality may not be as binary as we're led to believe, according to new book

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.

Why Do Young Men Commit Hate Crimes?

The beginning of summer is being met with rash of violent, potentially hate-based crimes across the United States. Ed Gordon talks with Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, about why so many hate crime perpetrators are young men -- many just teenagers.

A soldier and a woman walk past the headquarters for Russian troops in September 2021 in the town of Tiraspol, in Trans-Dniester, a pro-Russian region that declared independence from Moldova but is internationally unrecognized. Russia has stationed 1,500 soldiers in the area.

With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state

One of Europe's poorest countries, Moldova has a separatist region that hosts 1,500 Russian troops. Since the Ukraine war, Moldova has applied to join the EU, even as it keeps a policy of neutrality.

Medicare's coverage for long-term care is very limited, while Medicaid generally requires people to impoverish themselves before it picks up the tab.

Washington state retools first-in-nation payroll tax plan for long-term care costs

The WA Cares Fund would help alleviate the financial burden of long-term care by providing workers a lifetime benefit of $36,500. The program was delayed while lawmakers addressed equity issues.

Nurse Chris Martin is director of emergency services at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. She's in the hospital's "radio room," a communications nerve center that keeps track of how many available beds there are in the Seattle metro area.

Seattle at Forefront of Planning for Flu Pandemic

The World Health Organization confirmed on Thursday that two teenagers in Turkey have died from bird flu. In the U.S., the Seattle region one of the few areas preparing in earnest to face a flu pandemic.

On Immigration, Americans Show Range of Views

How are U.S. citizens reacting to the sudden rise in immigrants' numbers and aspirations? Some are enraged about broken borders and the rule of law. But many simply accept the phenomenon -- and quite a few are positive about it.

Irina Garmash, a mother of four from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, sits on an evacuation train that has stopped in the center-eastern city of Dnipro, on July 8. The train carries residents from the eastern Donbas region fleeing war during the Russian invasion.

Riding Ukraine's last train line out of Donbas with families fleeing for their lives

Russia is fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. To help civilians escape, the Ukrainian railway runs a free evacuation train out of the east. Here's what it's like.

In new novel, Elizabeth Zott is a chemist with a cooking show, thanks to gender roles

A no-nonsense chemist becomes a TV cooking-show sensation in the new novel "Lessons in Chemistry." Scott Simon talks with author Bonnie Garmus about her book.

Zelenskyy's plea to Congress recalls Churchill and others who fought for democracy

Other addresses to Congress by foreign leaders have paled compared to Winston Churchill welding with his words the alliance that overcame Adolph Hitler, until Volodymyr Zelenskyy's this week.

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