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Union protests in France now include cutting off power to some 150,000 customers. President Emmanuel Macron says he is firm in his intention to overhaul the nation's pension system.

Scotland is "a country in a voluntary union of nations," Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will block the move.

Under pressure to prepare for 2020 census interference, Facebook says content misrepresenting who can participate and the data the government collects will be banned from its social media platforms.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Milan Vaishnav, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the ongoing protests across India.

Along Lake Victoria, women fishmongers often engage in transactional sex with fishermen — a practice that contributes to Kenya's high rate of HIV. One group is challenging that convention.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amy Morris-Hall and Pat Fountain of Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mich., about the birth of the zoo's new black rhino calf. The species is critically endangered.

President Trump's trade agenda began to take hold in 2019. There was a revised NAFTA agreement and an initial deal with China. But deep uncertainty remains over U.S. trade relations with the world.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lee Hale, host of the podcast, Preach, about his conversations with people who are struggling with their faith.

Preparers of pills made from placental tissue have gained online momentum, claiming to support each new mom in her slog to recovery. A historian traces the trend to a mother's need to be heard.

A college student in Croatia was swapping hangover stories with friends when he thought — shouldn't stories this good be preserved? And with that, Croatia's Museum of Hangovers was founded.