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When Kim Hak-min got to South Korea, he saw his first-ever smartphone, the iPhone 4. It changed his life trajectory.

Nicolas Maduro presides over an unraveling economy marked by empty shop shelves, food riots, malnutrition and unrest. He's losing backers, but still has the military on his side.

As Venezuela's president has begun another six-year term, a young politician who heads the opposition-filled National Assembly is seeking international recognition as Venezuela's leader.

While President Trump has just named Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as a special ambassador for religious freedom, many diplomatic special envoy posts remain unfilled. Steve Inskeep talks to retired ambassador Ronald Neumann about such posts.

In The Darkening Web, Alexander Klimburg warns that the threat of an international cyber war is as real as nuclear exchange during the Cold War — only "many orders of magnitude greater."

Oklahoma's oil industry is spending millions on science lessons for public schools. But environmentalists say omitting climate change leaves students unprepared.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams.

Rev. Jerome LeDoux served the St. Augustine Catholic Church community in New Orleans as it successfully fought off closure after Hurricane Katrina. He died Monday at 88.

Diana Evans' novel follows two couples — 30-something Londoners — as they navigate friendship, relationships and parenthood. The goal, she says, was to write "about very ordinary moments."

In Venezuela, the arrest of opposition politicians overnight mark a shift towards dictatorship.