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Speaking in Moldova, Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Americans to leave Russia and vowed to support any American being held by Russia.

Voters in famously liberal San Francisco ousted three members of the board who, critics argued, focused more on renaming students than getting schools back into classrooms.

Officials are providing identifications and offering a clearer picture of the seven people who died when a shooter opened fire on a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Ill.

On Tuesday, the first of two NASA missions to Mars blasted off. The missions are part of an international fleet of spacecraft heading for Mars this summer, all aimed at tracing where the planet's water went. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

Rosanne Cash, the daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, is singing again — and that's no small thing. About three years ago, large polyps on her vocal chords kept her from singing. But after lots of therapy, she completed her first album in seven years. Cash talks about her long path back with NPR's Melissa Block — listen to full-length cuts of songs from her latest CD, Rules of Travel, recorded live in NPR's Studio 4A.

Mountain climbers learn how to rest step -- that is, to pause between each step to catch one's breath at high altitudes. Climber Phil Powers believes this technique of pacing is valuable in everyday life.

South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote Tuesday, his sixth since becoming president in 2009. Zuma also heads the ruling African National Congress, but he has been beset by corruption scandals and charges of economic mismanagement.

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and some other tobacco products, looking to make them less addictive and wean smokers off the habit.

"Change" may be the most common word being flung around on the presidential campaign trail this year. But William Safire, who chronicles political words and phrases, notes that "change" was big in Abraham Lincoln's day, too.

As National Poetry Month draws to a close, we recognize five new volumes that celebrate the form, including verse probing the darkness at the edge of everyday life from U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic and hard questions posed in comic fashion from Jane Shore.