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Turkey is blocking Sweden’s bid to join NATO over Stockholm’s contacts with Kurdish groups hoping to carve out a homeland straddling the borders of Turkey and Syria.

A deadly shooting at a Taiwanese church in California exposes rising tensions between Taiwan and China.

The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommends the agency authorize another COVID-19 vaccine in the hopes it might entice more people to get vaccinated.

What impact would bipartisan proposals for gun reform have on law enforcement? NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Art Acevedo, a former police chief of Austin, Houston and Miami.

More couples — including those who stayed in Russia and those who fled — are urgently marrying, for reasons both practical and deeply emotional. (Image credit: Tatyana Neustroyeva)

Moscow aims to prove it can gain and retain territory, while Ukraine wants to show some wary Western allies that it has a chance of prevailing against bigger Russian forces.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Image credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

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