Kat Lonsdorf

We came to a refugee camp in Jordan to ask what is on people's minds, as war and violence unfold in places that may be miles away, but that feel central to their identities.

There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction. This is the story of one such day.

Qassem Ali is one of the few people allowed to leave Gaza since the conflict with Israel began more than four weeks ago. He describes the anger and sadness he felt as he left.

Dr. Medhat Abbas, Gaza's Health Ministry director general, said his hospital was already short on medical supplies and medications. Now, with military strikes that have killed hundreds, it's worse.

Fog harvesting has long been a method of collecting water around the world. As climate change makes water harder and harder to find, technology is making it easier to pull water from the air.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Caroline Lucas, the executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, about how more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have begun a three-day strike.

The water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Although most scientists agree it does not pose an immediate environmental threat, some are worried about the long-term consequences.

Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.

Holed up in her hotel room, Lauren Swaddell could hear the wind howl as the typhoon approached. "The coconut trees are flying everywhere," she said.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.