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People watch a TV screen showing a news report about the COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 14, 2022. North Korea on Saturday reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea reports 15 more suspected COVID-19 deaths

North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and high numbers of fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country's first COVID-19 outbreak.

Annalena Baerbock, Foreign Minister of Germany, welcomes Jean-Yves Le Drian, Foreign Minister of France, for bilateral talks at the Schlossgut during the the summit of foreign ministers of the G7 Group of leading democratic economic powers at the Weissenhaus resort in Weissenhaeuser Strand, Germany, Friday, May 13, 2022. (Marcus Brandt/Pool via AP)

G7 warn of Ukraine grain crisis, ask China not to aid Russia

The Group of Seven leading economies warned Saturday that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis which threatens poor countries.

People line up to vote during parliamentary elections in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Mired in crises, Lebanese begin voting for new parliament

Lebanese voted for a new parliament Sunday against the backdrop of an economic meltdown that is transforming the country.

FILE - Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaks during a joint press announcement with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (not pictured) at Kishida's official residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Finland appears on the cusp of joining NATO. Sweden could follow suit. By year’s end, they could stand among the alliance’s ranks. Russia’s war in Ukraine has provoked a public about face on membership in the two Nordic countries. They are already NATO’s closest partners, but should Russia respond to their membership moves they might soon need the organization’s military support. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Finland and Sweden announce they want to join NATO, marking a big blow to Putin

Finland changed its policy toward the military alliance after troops invaded Ukraine. Sweden has avoided all military alliances, but like Finland, has also grown closer and closer to NATO over time.

McConnell says the Senate will pass the largest Ukraine aid package yet on Wednesday

The GOP leader spoke from Stockholm following a trip to Kyiv. He backed Sweden and Finland joining NATO and pushed back on more isolationist voices in his party.

A WWII veteran meets the man who found and returned his long-lost bracelet

A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.

Crime scene tape is stretched across an area at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., Sunday, May 15, 2022, after a fatal shooting. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California churchgoers hog-tied gunman in deadly attack

Four others were critically wounded and another person suffered minor injures, officials said.

Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a press briefing May 14, 2022 in Buffalo following a racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops Market. (Darren McGee / Office Of Gov. Kathy Hochul)

Hochul promises gun reform, calls out social media sites following Buffalo shooting

An 18-year-old white male allegedly killed 10 people and injured three others at the grocery store located on the city’s predominately Black East Side, in an attack that authorities say was a hate crime.

This dog broke into a Tennessee couple's house and snuggled her way into their bed

Julie and Jimmy Johnson woke up to quite the surprise after a night of thunderstorms earlier this month. While they have three dogs of their own, the dog sandwiched between them was a total stranger.

(L to R) Harrison McDonald, Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, Misti Knight and Blake Turkey pose for a portrait at Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Cooper Neill / NPR)

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

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