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Spain's jobless rate has exceeded even the most dire predictions. As Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy prepares to release a slate of economic changes, Spaniards are hoping he will heed their calls for mercy after years of budget cuts and austerity.

When you hear the words bubonic plague, Black Death usually comes to mind. But the first plague pandemic happened 800 years earlier, when the Justinian plague wiped out nearly a quarter of the world's population. Scientists have decoded the bacteria responsible, which have roots in China.

The Israeli-held Golan Heights, located right next to a civil war, has become an incubator for an experimental Arabic music scene.

Last year saw the highest number of deaths of United Nations peacekeepers since 1994. Former U.N. peacekeeper Conor Foley says "the line between peacekeeping and war-fighting is getting very blurred."

"Data gathered from these pilot projects will form the basis of a new regulatory framework to safely integrate drones into our national airspace," Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Wednesday.

Trump's reference to the killing of Christians was a particular flash point in the conversations on the street and on Twitter.

After nine black parishioners were gunned down in the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, everything changed. Host Linda Wertheimer speaks with Liz Alston, the church historian for the past 40 years.

Health officials have warned for years that the world is not ready for the next big pandemic. Leaders at the World Health Organization are meeting this week to try to change that.

Forget cathedrals and wine houses. A new guided tour takes visitors to Portugal's slums to see the effects of Europe's economic crisis. This story originally aired March 10 on Morning Edition.

And once it's there, it moves around. And around. There's a new report on the worm out this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.