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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Joel Anderson, executive director of the Snake River Farmers Association, about the upheaval in the world of farming.

Now that Canada is no longer requiring COVID-19 tests from vaccinated travelers, tourism is up in many U.S. border communities. In New York, Plattsburgh is seeing a big increase in tourism.

Nearly 200 illegal immigrants have been arrested in New England during the largest fugitive operation of its kind. Most of those arrested had outstanding deportation orders for violent crimes.

Japan on Friday began accepting applications for tourists on guided package tours who're willing to follow mask-wearing and other preventative measures as the country cautiously reopens.

Flights filled up and ticket prices sky-rocketed, apparently driven by fears that Russia's borders could close or that a broader call-up might send many Russian men to the war's front lines.

Newly discovered letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, detail his efforts to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Holland in 1941 and emigrate to the United States or Cuba.

The Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda formed in a basement in Baghdad under the Saddam Hussein regime — not exactly the easiest place to play thrash metal. The group, featured in the 2007 documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, just released its first EP, called Only the Dead See the End of the War.

If the results are certified, PhD students working as teaching assistants and researchers at Duke University will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South.

Two men in Uganda are the first to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality" under a harsh new law that carries the death penalty. Their cases highlight the threats for LGBTQ+ people in Uganda.

President Bush said the United States is "outraged" by human rights abuses in Myanmar and announces that Washington will tighten economic sanctions against the country's military rulers amid mass anti-government protests there.