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The American Library Association handed out nearly two dozen awards for kids' books this week. We look at some of the winners.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused grain prices to rise. One Romanian wheat farmer explains how the shift in global markets is affecting his farm.

In a statement released by state media on his 80th birthday, Cuban President Fidel Castro strikes a positive note about the future but also warns the Cuban people to be ready for "adverse news."

When a woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel Go With Me into author Charles Bock's hand, he had no idea what a wry, primal, epic and impossible-to-put-down book he had just been given.

In this Nashville songwriter's hands, an examination of the wounds wrought by relationships is an occasion for exacting honesty.

The fate of a proposed lithium mine in Nevada — one that's important to production of electric cars — is now in the hands of a federal judge as tribes sue to stop it.

Phil Pister, a biologist who singlehandedly saved a rare fish from extinction by walking through the desert at night with two buckets in his hands, has died at 94.

The Justice Department is suing Arizona's most controversial sheriff on civil rights violations. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being charged with racial profiling of motorists, mistreatment of inmates and retaliation against his critics.

Should the game be called "soccer" or "football"? It's a highly charged question as the U.S. plays England in the World Cup on Friday.

For around eight years, a group of independent investigators has tried to learn what happened to 43 college students who went missing in Mexico. The last two international investigators have now left.