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The Vatican has sought to make a papal trip to Iraq, the traditional home of Abraham and now a shrinking Christian minority, since 2000. Pope Francis ended his first day there with religious leaders.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Alastair Gale, of The Wall Street Journal, who is based in Tokyo, on the tenth anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis.

Naomi Alderman's new novel imagines a world in which women suddenly pose a physical threat to men. Alderman says it was gratifying to imagine how characters might use that power to fight back.

After 24 hours of debate, the Senate in a 50-49 vote passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. The measure now moves back to the House which must pass an identical version.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie Koerth of FiveThirtyEight about how a number of states could have experienced the same problems Texas had during last week's winter storm.

Faced with the prospect of reshaping college athletics, the U.S. Supreme Court issued potentially transformative ruling Monday in a case that pitted college athletes against the NCAA.

American troops captured an Iraqi they call an important operative in the terror group ISIS. But the U.S. says it has no plans to get back into the detainee-holding business. After the man is interrogated, the Americans plan to hand him over to Iraq's Kurdish government. The raid and capture augurs a new phase in the ongoing war against the Islamic State, top U.S. officials say.

President Biden is taking questions from reporters on his top foreign and domestic priorities after talks with world leaders at the G-20 in Rome — and just ahead of the U.N. climate summit.

NPR's David Folkenflik discusses the offseason lockout negotiations with baseball analyst and former player Doug Glanville.

Rameshchandra Patel got COVID-19 early on in the pandemic, when little was known about the virus. His son, Suhash Patel, shares the guiding principles of life his father left as notes in a textbook.