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Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova will leave Moscow's Bolshoi ballet and Russia in protest of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. She told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about her experience with the Bolshoi in 2018.

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

Andrew Bird ruminates on a line from Joan Didion's 1968 essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

In 2016, Musk said that a "meaningful number of people" could reach the red planet in 10 years. Now, he seems to predict a crewed Mars landing in 2029.

The Russian president's references to "cleansing" of "scum and traitors" evoked terrifying memories of the mass arrests of the Stalin era, when repression was justified for "cleansing" Soviet society.

The pickup crossed into the opposite lane on a darkened, highway before colliding head-on with a van, killing the boy, a man traveling with him, six New Mexico college students and a golf coach.

For Jimmie Allen, what makes a country artist isn't how many fiddles and mandolins they have in a song. It's something more natural than that.

So far, China has remained noncommittal about whether it opposes Russia's war in Ukraine. President Biden will push China to come out more strongly against Russia.

NPR's Leila Fadel visits a hospital in the western city of Lviv in Ukraine that treats cancer patients to see how Russia's war has affected treatments for some of country's sickest people.

Russia conducted a missile strike on an aviation repair building in Lviv, Ukraine. It's the first attack within Lviv city limits since the war began.