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A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with former U.S. NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder about the implications of imposing a no-fly zone in Ukraine in response to the growing humanitarian crisis.

Researchers say they've found the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids, in a fossil dug up decades ago in Montana. But unlike octopuses, the creature has 10 arms.

In Lublin, Poland, a decades-old building has taken on a purpose its designers could never have imagined. Members of the Jewish community say this may have been the building's purpose all along.

The Pentagon is testing hundreds of military sites around the country for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS, which have been linked to health problems such as cancer.

David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig.

One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country to refugees who have fled.

Some Ukrainian Americans are questioning their church affiliation in light of the war. They say the Russian Orthodox Church isn't opposing the war strongly enough, so they're looking for alternatives.

An expedition went where few have ever gone to locate the remnants of a ship that became trapped in the ice 106 years ago, dashing the famed explorer's ambitious mission to cross Antarctica.

Some children have been evacuated from orphanages there, but the system for approving adoptions is in chaos.