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Melissa Block talks to Steve Wicary, a freelance journalist based in Havana, about reactions on the ground in Cuba, to the announcement that the U.S. and Cuba will normalize relations.

Audie Cornish talks with freelance photographer Tommy Trenchard, who has been shooting in Sierra Leone the last two years. He offers an on-the-ground account of the Ebola virus outbreak.

Migrants are fleeing hyperinflation and widespread hunger. More than a dozen governments in the Americas have rejected the legitimacy of Maduro's re-election.

NPR's Jackie Northam was a freelance reporter based in Kenya when the Rwandan genocide erupted. In this essay, she recalls covering those terrible events and trying to make sense of them afterward.

People live out of their cars for all sorts of reasons. Photographer Andrew Waits set out to document their stories. He asked dozens of people across five states why they had left their houses behind.

A curfew has been lifted, the day after a series of explosions hit churches and hotels. David Greene talks to freelance journalist Lisa Fuller in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

Ethiopia's government declared a unilateral cease-fire after nearly eight months of fighting. The opposition, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, has dismissed it. Thousands of people face famine.

The new book The Pun Also Rises, by 1995 O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack, traces the surprising long and rich history of what some people call the lowest form of humor.

In Charles Town, W.Va., police say a bank robber asked a cabdriver to wait for him until he came out of the bank. The driver recognized the suspect's photo from an earlier robbery and called police.

“If our greatest travel stories happen when things don't go as planned, why do we plan so much?” Seth Kugel seeks to answer this question in his new...