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NPR's Leila Fadel talks with former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Ryan Crocker about Israeli launching a limited ground invasion of Lebanon, and U.S. influence in the Middle East.

The Education Department unveiled a plan to rewrite and roll back important rules that govern colleges and their accrediting agencies. The department says it wants to reduce obstacles to innovation, but critics worry this will lower school standards and hurt students.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Thomas Reese, senior analyst for Religion News Service, about how Pope Francis has changed the Universal Catechism to teach that the death penalty is never admissible.

A circuit attorney has withdrawn an invasion of privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens — just as the case was getting started. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Rachel Lippmann of St. Louis Public Radio about what happens next.

The VA looks like it is changing course on a plan that would have threatened the privacy of veterans receiving mental health care via telehealth, according to documents obtained by NPR.

President Trump upended U.S. - Russia policy in one week, and foreign policy experts are trying to understand why and what might come next.

Christie's held an auction for "The Bay of Eze," a painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds.

In the past few months, four people suspected of posting information about the Zetas drug cartels online have been murdered and decapitated in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Some websites continue to post information about the cartels, making those contributors potential targets.

President Trump's trade war is starting to take a toll on US importers. Double-digit tariffs on goods from dozens of countries took effect overnight.

Two new studies suggest that stem cells are close to helping people with Parkinson's disease. The results are a victory for scientists who have spent decades trying to treat it with brain cells.