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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mustafa Barghouti, a doctor and leader of the the Palestinian National Initiative, about the humanitarian and political crisis in Gaza.

Scientists have shown how pregnancy hormones alter a brain circuit in mice. The finding helps explain how hormones induce maternal behavior in a range of mammals.

A confrontation between religious freedom and public safety has reached the Supreme Court of Texas. The battle is over access to a site where Native Americans have been holding spiritual ceremonies for centuries.

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies pick up communication styles from their mothers.

DOGE recently got high-level access to a database that controls billions of dollars in government payments to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

Senate negotiators are continuing to work on a bipartisan border deal even after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested the politics around the agreement have shifted.

Foreign ministers from the world's top economies are meeting for the G20 in South Africa. But the U.S. is conspicuous in its absence.

This week's Short Wave news roundup covers harvesting drinking water from fog, what elephant seals reveal about fish populations in the deep ocean, and why there's always room for dessert.

According to a Gallup survey from 2022, Americans are reading fewer books per year than ever before. And the time that people spend reading has dropped over the years, too.

Venezuelan migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay are being held in a military prison that has housed al-Qaeda members.