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Sri Lanka is in a deep economic and humanitarian crisis. A big contributing factor? Its central bank is running dangerously low on foreign currency reserves.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with Hanna Bergholm, the director of the new horror movie 'Hatching,' in which a girl finds a mysterious egg in the woods and nurtures it until it hatches.

For one 19-year-old Afghan refugee, resettling in the U.S. has been a lonely and stressful journey.

Advocates and public health experts say the move could prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths over the next 40 years.

The patient, an inmate in a pre-release program, was involved in culling poultry presumptively infected with H5N1 bird flu at a farm. The virus, while deadly for birds, poses a low risk to humans.

Afghans are protesting the Taliban's ban on girls attending secondary school, including a surprising cohort: pro-Taliban clerics.

The report found that officers stopped, searched, arrested, and killed people of color at significantly higher rates than white people. It arrives two years after the death of George Floyd.

Skiers Art Clay and Ben Finley made history this year.

This year's earlier-than-normal start to the spring wildfire season is being blamed on an extended drought made worse by climate change.

The trees can be hundreds of years old, if not thousands, and play vital roles in local ecosystems and the world environment.