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Tom Manoff reviews a new CD by the Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin that features exciting performances of some less than famous composers. The CD is Ouvertueren (Overtures): Music for the Hamburg Opera is on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass before crowds in St. Peter's Square for the first time since the pandemic, Pope Francis called for a truce.

Mariza is a 29-year-old singer of fado — the rich, emotionally textured music tradition from Portugal. She recently spoke with NPR's Melissa Block about her childhood in Lisbon, and about how fado has been her anchor. Hear samples from Mariza's latest CD, Fado Curvo.

Citing "increasing reports of Ukrainian women feeling at risk from their sponsors," the U.N.'s refugee agency is urging U.K. officials to refine the matching process for its Homes for Ukraine program.

Burrowed into the side of a mountain, on a Norwegian island deep in the Arctic, is the Global Seed Vault, a small building where vital seed varieties are kept in a deep freeze year round.

Rep. Ted Budd, who has former President Donald Trump's endorsement, easily won the North Carolina GOP Senate primary, the AP reports. He will face Democrat Cheri Beasley in November.

It is a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war. Three years into the Iraq war, the U.S. military admits it has learned that the hard way. At Fort Irwin, soldiers are trained in new counterinsurgency tactics in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.

On any given day, hundreds of thousands of U.S. military veterans find themselves sleeping on the streets. Farai Chideya visits a Southern California intervention program for homeless veterans.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.