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The invasion of Ukraine occurred despite weeks of diplomatic efforts, including calls between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin and European leaders' visits to Putin in Moscow.

Mitski claims new ground on her sixth album, spreading herself across different kinds of pop music with each new song. The result is more varied than anything she's created thus far.

Many Ukrainians had been maintaining a state of calm as warning signs grew of a Russian invasion. But Russia's wide-scale attack on Ukraine has dramatically changed the mood in the nation's capital.

At the Beijing Olympics, veteran athletes are doing really well — and in some cases winning gold medals — stealing the show from their younger and flashier counterparts.

Austria has become the first Western democracy to require vaccines for nearly all adults. Everyone who isn't exempt will be required to show proof of vaccination during random checks by the police.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified about the editorial that wrongly linked her political action committee's ad to a mass shooting. The paper's attorneys pressed her on her political rhetoric.

Luc Montagnier, the scientist who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, has died at 89. His key contribution came at a time when AIDS was mysterious and uniformly deadly.

Consumer prices continue to climb at a rapid rate. The latest inflation data from the Labor Department also reflects how the pandemic is reshaping what Americans spend money on.

Bayard Rustin was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement in the '60s you may have never heard of. NPR's podcast Throughline has this profile.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality on the expanded child tax credit in the stimulus bill and how it'd reduce poverty among children.