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On March 1, 1954, the U.S. conducted its largest nuclear test with a yield of 15 megatons. The new Russian weapon would be up to 100 megatons, according to reports. (USAF Lookout Moutain Laboratory)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Buried in Trump’s nuclear report: a Russian doomsday weapon

On March 1, 1954, the U.S. conducted its largest nuclear test with a yield of 15 megatons. The new Russian weapon would be up to 100 megatons, according to reports.

8 years ago

Sergey Naryshkin speaks during the European Social Charter Conference in March 2016 in Turin, Italy, prior to his appointment to head Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Russian spy chief reportedly met with U.S. intelligence officials despite sanctions

The head of Russia's foreign spy service traveled to the U.S. and met with top Trump administration intelligence officials, despite being on a U.S. sanctions blacklist.

8 years ago

** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo.  A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, acquitted Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, saying there was no evidence that she
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve”

ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning Turkish novelist who writes about women’s and min ...

8 years ago

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Ifrah Mansour appears in a video for her poem,
PBS
Lifestyle

One year after the first travel ban, artists from affected countries share their stories

For immigrants from these countries and their descendants, the ban is an ongoing hurdle in building a home away from home.

8 years ago

An injured man is moved to a stretcher outside a hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Jan. 27, 2018. A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded about 140 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban on Saturday in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, authorities said. (Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)
Community

Officials say 95 killed, 158 wounded in Afghan car bombing

The attacker used the ambulance to get through a security checkpoint in central Kabul, telling police he was taking a patient to a nearby hospital.

8 years ago

Children hold signs at a November news conference in Miami in support of renewing temporary protected status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

NAACP sues Trump administration over ending protected status for Haitians

At least 46,000 Haitians are living in the U.S. with protection from deportation and the ability to work under the TPS program.

8 years ago

Twendele and Lukoji pose for a wedding photo in May 2015. (Photo courtesy of  Lisette Lukoji)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Changes in U.S. immigration policy are keeping this married Congolese couple apart

Twendele was fortunate to get to the U.S. before new refugee restrictions went into place. But a woman he married in the refugee camp is still stuck in southeastern Africa.

8 years ago

Listen 6:02
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’

Guest: Michael Walzer Most of the discussions taking place among American leftists concern domestic issues, such ...

Air Date: January 24, 2018

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South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela performs during the Observance for Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in central London in March 2012.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Hugh Masekela, father of South African jazz, dies at 78

"[Our] hearts beat with profound loss," the Masekela family said in a statement.

8 years ago

With North Korea planning to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics, delegation head Jon Jong Su, vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, crosses the concrete border to attend a meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
(Yonhap via Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

North Korean athletes will march with South Koreans at Pyeongchang Olympics

The two countries say their athletes will march together at the opening ceremony under a unification flag.

8 years ago

Pope Francis waves at followers on his way to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, on Monday.
NPR
Community

On visit to Chile, Pope asks for forgiveness over sex-abuse scandal

Pope Francis, arriving in Chile to begin a three-day visit, opened his trip by asking for forgiveness over a local priest-abuse scandal that has left the country reeling.

8 years ago

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
PBS
Community

As Trump ends temporary protections for Salvadorans, this poet writes to humanize the immigrant story

8 years ago

In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, a Hawaii Civil Defense Warning Device, which sounds an alert siren during natural disasters, is seen in Honolulu. (Caleb Jones/AP)
NPR
Community

‘This Is Not A Drill’: A false ballistic missile alert shakes Hawaii

FCC is launching full investigation into false alert in Hawaii.

8 years ago

Julian Assange speaks to the media from the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador on May 19, 2017, in London. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Ecuador grants citizenship to Julian Assange, who lives in London embassy

Assange, who is Australian, first sought refuge at the embassy more than five years ago.

8 years ago

Iranian worshippers walk past a painting of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and Basij paramilitary force members, at the conclusion of a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Officials: Iran deal survives, Trump to waive sanctions

The sanctions deal with Iran's central bank.

8 years ago

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