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The agreement, negotiated over years, represents the first time since Cuba's revolution that baseball players can sign with U.S. teams without having to defect.

A 73-year-old widow from New Hampshire got stranded in New Zealand when the pandemic hit last year. Where she's living now is handling COVID-19 very differently than the United States.

More Cubans are leaving the country than ever before. Cuba is facing its worst economic downturn in decades.

There's been sharp criticism by European leaders of attempts by the regime in Belarus to push migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere over its borders with European Union countries.

The league board's decision comes after the British government sanctioned the Russian businessman, who has ties to President Vladimir Putin.

Much of the political debate about border security is focused on the U.S. border with Mexico. Tom Banse reports from the Canadian border about patrol efforts there to stop illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States from the north.

Tensions between Russia and the West are ratcheting up as the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 60 U.S. officials and the closure of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Heather McGill, a researcher with Amnesty International, about threats against Belarusian athletes, including Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya.

The political unrest in Ukraine is spreading. Steve Inskeep talks to Steven Pifer, senior analyst at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, about the issues behind the upheaval in Ukraine.

A federal judge has temporarily halted President Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. NPR's Scott Horsley has the latest.