Israel's military has imposed a curfew and created a no-go zone where villagers are prohibited from going home to villages across southern Lebanon. NPR speaks to residents inside.

A study from researchers in Finland shows that people can take more than two months off from the gym and quickly regain their strength when they get back to it. Scientists cite muscle memory.

Hollywood set an all time record over the Thanksgiving holidays. But does that actually mean anything? Movie critic Bob Mondello says it's wise to take the numbers with a grain of salt.

On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.

United CEO Scott Kirby is the latest airline executive to speak out about what they want to see from Trump. Kirby is focused on air traffic control staffing but there are other issues as well.

The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, about his latest album, "Small Changes," and his musical influences.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sara Kassim, a freelance reporter in Aleppo about the situation on the ground after opposition forces have captured large swaths of land in the area.

For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.

A Danish museum has agreed to return the bronze head of a Roman Emperor to Turkey. The sculpture was among thousands of artifacts looted from Turkey and sold to American and European museums.

Fabienne Josaphat, author of Kingdom of No Tomorrow, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the Black Panther movement, and its significance inside the U.S., and to Haitian people.

North Carolina has seen a back-and-forth over voter identification rules. The requirement finally got its first major test in last month's presidential election.