Aya Batraway is an NPR International Correspondent based in Dubai. She joined in 2022 from the Associated Press, where she was an editor and reporter for over 11 years.
Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and immigration, and has been a correspondent in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Haiti.
Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend known as the Saxophone Colossus died yesterday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 95 years old and one of the last of his generation of jazz titans.
Fishermen working off Ecuador say they were attacked by drones, taken onboard a U.S.-flagged vessel, cuffed and handed over to Salvadoran officials. They want to know who attacked them and why.
Republicans are talking up healthcare amid the midterm election campaigns, but President Trump's $50 billion fund for rural healthcare won't reopen hospitals.
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Heather Kerr of the International Rescue Committee about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the challenges facing the response efforts.
Some Texas Republicans worry that the intraparty Senate primary fight could make it difficult for to unite behind Tuesday's winner to defeat a potentially strong Democratic challenge in the midterms.