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Iranians are using Starlink to get online during the government's near-total internet shutdown.

David Hecht reports from Senegal on a unique educational program which has been quite successful in getting whole villages to renounce the traditional practice of female circumcision. The approach is built around a series of two-month courses which focus on a range of topics, from hygiene to human rights. The program goes on for a full year before the subject of female circumcision is even raised. Facilitators do not say it is wrong, or that it inhibits sexual pleasure; they merely focus on the procedure's health risks.

Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on the push against ultra processed foods and added sugar, and what that could mean for school lunches and food labels, and says the administration's hierarchy of vaccines is meant to encourage childhood vaccine uptake.

Eyder Peralta, NPR international correspondent, on racing to the Venezuela border after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, and the obstacles keeping journalists from getting into the country.

His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government.

Some of the 2025 policies that have been implemented include cracking down on immigration and dismantling the Department of Education.

Brandon Jay and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, created Altadena Musicians to help those who may have lost their beloved musical instruments in last year's LA wildfires.

The prime minister of Norway says President Trump cited the Nobel Prize as a reason for not pursuing a peaceful resolution on Greenland.

More than three dozen people were killed as two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain.

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named Veronika.