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You are in luck! This week’s Learning Snacks is here! We are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this week and honoring Women’s History Month all March long. From shamrocks to stories of inspiration, it’s the perfect time to enjoy time together!

President Trump's deployment of the National Guard will hit the one year mark next week. The presence of armed, uniformed troops on the street has become increasingly normalized in the capital.

Matt Rutherford is sailing 10,000 nautical miles, through ice floes and gales, to try and accomplish a world first. He spoke with NPR from the cabin of his boat.

Wang Jibing, a writer and delivery driver, has won one of China's most prestigious award for poetry. Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow of Duke University explains why his work has had such huge impact.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to reporter Maria Godoy about how parents can wade through the noise and opinions to find information to help keep their kids healthy.

More than 20 million Shia pilgrims flocked to a shrine city in Iraq this week, including millions of Iranians, despite the wars tearing across the Middle East.

An agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is still far away. Tim Wilkins, who works for a tanker industry group, says the ships stuck around the waterway are in limbo, and transiting is still dangerous.

The Senate narrowly confirmed former Trump personal attorney Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General, a major win for the president's approach to keeping the Justice Department close to the White House.

The Hartford circus fire in 1944 was the deadliest disaster in the history of Connecticut. This hour, a look at the new play ‘Circus Fire’ and the actual circus fire.

Oleksiy Yukov spent two decades recovering the bodies of soldiers — including many Russians. He was killed during a recovery mission after stepping on a landmine.