Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves the White House after meeting with President Trump, in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Hamas fighters stand guard as an International Red Cross vehicle arrives at the site of the handing over of two Israeli hostages in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025. Youssef Alzanoun/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption
Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption
Eyad Abu Shkheidem in his family's home in Hebron. Daniel Estrin/NPR hide caption
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalists during press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption
Zelenskyy Visits DC, Tate Brothers In Florida, USAID Standoff, AOC and DOJ
A woman grieves at a memorial for those killed and abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack by Hamas militants, near the kibbutz Reim, southern Israel on May 13, 2024. Leo Correa/AP hide caption
President Donald Trump shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Former U.S. ambassador to China Winston Lord discusses Trump's policy shifts in Asia
In this image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero. AP/FBI hide caption
Reigning chess world champion Boris Spassky, left, of Russia, and international grandmaster Bobby Fischer of the United States, are seen during a game at the XIX World Chess Olympiad in Siegen, Germany, Sept. 20, 1970. Heinz Ducklau/AP hide caption
Former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers show their support to USAID workers retrieving their personal belongings from USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
An abrupt departure as USAID workers return to clear their desks at DC headquarters.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supporters hold banners as USAID workers retrieve their personal belongings from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
USAID workers return to HQ to clear their desks, as Trump dismantles the agency
Wrecked wagons and mangled pieces of metal are seen near the tracks after a train accident in the Tempi Valley near Larissa, Greece, March 1, 2023. SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump takes questions during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday. Starmer is on his first visit to the White House since Trump returned to office. Carl Court/Getty Images hide caption
Andrew Tate (foreground) and his brother Tristan arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, after Romanian authorities lifted travel restrictions against them. Marta Lavandier/AP hide caption
A man stands in front of Taiwanese navy ships anchored at the harbor in Keelung, near Taipei in northern Taiwan, on Dec. 11, 2024. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish population, in 1992. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
Syrian Jews return to Damascus hoping to rebuild a community
Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on Feb. 4. Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Police stand outside an immigration detention center of the Immigration Bureau where Uyghur detainees were held in Bangkok in January. The detainees said they were facing deportation back to China, where they fear persecution. Haruka Nuga/AP hide caption
"I have a lot to think about the relationship between mourning, between grieving, and between pain, generally speaking, and bilingualism and living in a different language," says Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza about Death Takes Me, her newly translated novel. Penguin Random House. hide caption
Language as protagonist in Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Virginia Mayo/AP hide caption
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas discusses shifting U.S. alliances
Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday. Jehad Alshrafi/AP hide caption
Hamas hands over bodies of four hostages as Israel frees Palestinian prisoners
In this image taken off a video released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a member of Taiwan Navy reacts on the intercom to Chinese war ships conducting drills about 40 nautical miles off the coast of western Taiwan's Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities on Feb. 26, 2025. AP/Taiwan Ministry of National Defense hide caption