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Despite a wet winter, the drought crisis along the Colorado River remains dire and produce farmers along the California-Arizona border may be facing their first ever cuts to irrigation water.

International organizations are concerned about North Korean defectors detained in China. They could soon be repatriated to North Korea, where they might face harsh punishment.

James Boasberg is the new chief judge at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C., where he's already made important rulings in a federal probe of former President Donald Trump.

Tenn. state lawmakers vote out two Democrats following gun control protests. Pentagon probes leaked documents on war in Ukraine. The White House moves to make broad, transgender sports bans illegal.

A shooting attack killed two Israeli women in the West Bank. But otherwise there seem to be efforts to limit an escalation.

A Biden administration review of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan blames the Trump administration for the lack of preparedness.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Arin Dube, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, about how wage growth is breaking down some barriers in the job market.

After Donald Trump's election, Dr. Ayaz Virji started giving talks to mostly white, Christian audiences in rural Minnesota to try to dispel misconceptions about Muslims. He faced a lot of backlash.

There are signs the hot U.S. job market cooled off a bit last month. We'll get a temperature check when the Labor Department reports on job gains for the month of March.

In this week's StoryCorps, Zack Stephney talks to Melissa Brooks — he rescued her from a flash flood in Georgia in 2009.