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More Cubans are leaving the country than ever before. Cuba is facing its worst economic downturn in decades.

A truck believed to be carrying migrants crashed near Mexico's southen border with Guatemala, killing more than 50 people.

The league board's decision comes after the British government sanctioned the Russian businessman, who has ties to President Vladimir Putin.

Much of the political debate about border security is focused on the U.S. border with Mexico. Tom Banse reports from the Canadian border about patrol efforts there to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States from the north.

Tensions between Russia and the West are ratcheting up as the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 60 U.S. officials and the closure of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg.

The political unrest in Ukraine is spreading. Steve Inskeep talks to Steven Pifer, senior analyst at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, about the issues behind the upheaval in Ukraine.

Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows three men who journey from India to England, looking for a better life. But NPR's Nishant Dahiya says that life turns out to be a complex, and often dangerous one.

The U.S. ambassador to Thailand said an American plane filled with relief supplies was ready to take off for Myanmar on Thursday, but the government there revoked permission. U.S. disaster relief specialists are also having trouble getting in, despite their unique and badly needed skills.

Deborah Campbell's A Disappearance in Damascus is both a taut detective story and an intimate account of friendship during war — and that's before our reviewer discovered her own part in the story.

More than 130 Jewish students, staff and alumni from Georgetown University signed a public letter opposing the detention of Badar Khan Suri, saying that President Trump's policies make Jews less safe.