Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn't much better: the power plants that the mine supplies constantly spew fumes over his village.

An exit interview with America’s top aid official after confronting a turbulent series of humanitarian crises.

Saudi Arabia hosted an expanded ministerial meeting on Syria yesterday, following last month’s fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Syria,

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to novelist Scott Turow about his latest legal thriller, "Presumed Guilty." This news story is funded in large part by Connecticut Public’s Members — listeners, viewers, and readers like you who value fact-based journalism and trustworthy information.

A senior U.S. diplomat in northern Syria, William V. Roebuck, in a memo, called it “a catastrophic sideshow” and “an intentioned-laced effort at ethnic cleansing” with reference to Erdogan’s plan to replace the Kurdish population with Syrian refugees from Turkey. There was a similar displacement after the Turkish occupation of Afrin.

Here's an exit interview with America’s top aid official after confronting a turbulent series of humanitarian crises.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nobel-Prize winning author Han Kang about her latest novel, "We Do Not Part."

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the NFL playoffs, the college football national championship, and remembers Milwaukee Baseball legend Bob Uecker.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

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Five years after the start of the COVID crisis - is the U.S. more prepared to handle another pandemic?