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U.S. officials maintained Friday that Ukraine has provided written assurances to minimize civilian casualties with the use of the controversial munitions.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.

Many adults in Mexico don't have any kind of bank account, and a lot of those people are young and tech savvy. Financial tech startups see this as a big opportunity for online-only banks.

Is there a water crisis happening in Manila? It depends on who you ask and from where you're getting your information. The answers, though, say a lot about the current state of Philippine media.

After massive precipitation, the long-dry Tulare Lake is back. That's been hard on crops and homes, but has allowed the Tachi Yokut Tribe to reconnect with the lake they once built their lives around.

Businessman Ned Lamont upsets Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Lieberman, a three-term senator, says he will seek to run as an independent in the November general election. The race was seen as a test of anti-war sentiment within the Democratic Party.

The air-traffic controller's strike 25 years ago left many of the strikers jobless and unable to return to the FAA after President Reagan banned them. The tension of that era affects workers today.

A new study from the American Bar Association explores why so few women of color reach the highest ranks of law firms. Many of the women shared tales of harassment and discrimination that led them to leave their firms.

On this day 25 years ago, a cable channel called Music Television debuted, broadcasting "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles as its first video. The Buggles pretty much disappeared, but MTV became a behemoth. Today, the corporation owns more than 50 channels in 28 languages and 168 countries.

Raul Castro, 75, now holds power in Cuba as older brother Fidel Castro recovers from surgery. The development has intensified power struggles in Havana between two sets of loyalists: Fidelistas and Raulistas.