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In a special one-hour program, reporter Mallory Noe-Payne brings us one man’s story — and how it weaves with decades of history.

The director of documentaries like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War once told the composer his music wasn't repetitive enough.

A new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press suggests a significant negative shift in perceptions of the United States among people in 44 nations, including many in the Muslim world. But as NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, the poll also exposes many contradictions. Much of the world, for example, believes that Iraq is a threat to Mideast stability -- but are suspicious of American motives. Read the results of the entire poll.

A Kenyan intelligence official says that the "high-value terrorist leader" whose residence was targeted in a Navy SEAL raid was the senior al-Shabab leader Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, alias Ikrima. Ikrima is a Kenyan of Somali descent who boasts connections to both al-Shabab in Somalia and to a Kenyan jihadist group called al-Hijra.

The first-ever stage production of the 1951 Hollywood film starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, with a Gershwin score, is getting rave reviews during its premiere in the city that inspired it.

Social media influencers have become a source of news for a significant number of Americans, especially when it comes to politics. But many don't find facts to back up their content.

High deductibles and medical bills are feeding resentment and political alienation of the middle class, reports the Los Angeles Times. We unpack.

In the 1930s, the Nazi movement was on the rise in Europe — and at summer camps for kids in the United States.

The most popular dog names of 2018 say a lot about our world and what we're watching. Increasingly, dogs are getting human names, but is that really a surprise since they're part of the family?

Twenty-two months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, dissension and fatigue are evident among Kyiv's most senior officials. The war has reached a stalemate.