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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about how highly educated Syrians are leaving their country.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with ESPN's Paul Finebaum, about what the Power 5 college football conferences plan to do for the upcoming season.

To prepare for more development, lawmakers in Florida are commissioning new toll roads through rural areas. But some rural communities say they don't want them.

On Wednesday, unions representing airline pilots, air-traffic controllers and flight attendants said there would be serious safety concerns if the partial government shutdown continues.

Traveling U.S. presidents get a flight restriction with a radius that spans 30 nautical miles. When pilots fly inside that airspace, they risk being intercepted by the Air Force.

Strong winds can make it feel a lot colder than the thermometer suggests. Protect yourself by covering exposed skin and sheltering inside.

In West Africa, tiny Benin is riding a coastal building boom — but beneath the cranes and construction, new inequalities are taking hold.

Florida's coral reefs are being decimated by a mysterious disease. It comes after years of warming waters have bleached coral reefs around the world, leaving them weakened.

Volunteers help endangered baby turtles in southern Lebanon in the midst of low-level war on the country's border with Israel.

The U.S. has officially labeled Venezuela's Cartel de los Soles, allegedly led by President Nicolás Maduro and top officials, a foreign terrorist organization.