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The overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria paved the way for a historic visit, with Syrian Jews returning from the U.S. to Damascus for the first time in three decades, hoping to rebuild community.

Kendrick Lamar won his rap war with Drake last year by just about any measure, but this week, Drake got a small measure of revenge when his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, knocks Lamar out of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts.

Party City, the retail chain that dressed America in scary masks and dramatic capes, is closing hundreds of stores as soon as this week.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Monday condemning Russian aggression and calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. The U.S. joined Russia in opposing it.

A former surgeon in France, now 74, is on trial for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children. Investigators say the violence spanned more than three decades.

Recent data shows suicide rates for Black teens, and the causes are not known. Gabriel, 14, talks about how he is perceived in the world and how that affected his mental health.

The new top two leaders at the FBI are Trump loyalists with no prior experience at the bureau. NPR asks retired FBI special agent Thomas J. Baker for his impressions of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

Bri McNulty, 23, won her dream job as a CDC fellow working on cancer prevention in Iowa, the state with the second highest incidence of cancer. But she was fired, like so many federal workers.

A new video game is on the cutting edge of interactive storytelling, though in some ways its still behind stories written in the 1970s.

Singer Roberta Flack has died at age 88. She was best known for ballads such as "Killing Me Softly" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."