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Before civil war devastated Syria, Walid Sakaan's home country, his daughter Magda moved there. At StoryCorps, Walid and Magda remember family they haven't visited in years.

Writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He was 90. He's best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he wrote many dozens of science fiction novels. Clarke, a trained scientist who united intellectual rigor with imagination, inspired generations of writers and scientists with his powerfully humane vision of the future.

U.S. officials thanked Sweden and China for help securing the release of the 23-year-old Army private, who fled to North Korea in July.

Arguster and Lebronze Davis and their 14 siblings grew up and worked with their parents on the family's Alabama farm. The brothers remember their father, who taught them how to "do the right thing."

Earlier this year, Albert Petrocelli died after contracting the coronavirus. StoryCorps revisits a 2005 interview with Albert and his wife remembering a son who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

The documents, which are marked top secret, were posted to the Telegram messaging app and first reported by CNN and Axios.

As a kid, Jeffrey Sherman told his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, about his experience getting a polio vaccine. It sparked Robert to craft the now famous Mary Poppins song, "A Spoonful of Sugar."

The Trump administration is adding Libya to the list of countries that are destinations for migrants deported from the U.S.

The U.S. military is at a turning point. It has just pulled out of Iraq, it is starting to wind down its effort in Afghanistan, it's shifting its focus to Asia, and the Pentagon budget for next year will shrink after a decade of huge increases. The defense secretary and the head of the Joint Chiefs spoke about the changes to Congress.

The Biden administration faced mounting pressure to relocate about 18,000 Afghans who helped with U.S. military operations, along with their families. Many fear a resurgent Taliban will seek revenge.