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After losing jobs and people for half a century, the region in upstate New York is finally growing again. Refugees may be one reason why: Roughly 10,000 have resettled in the area since 2003.

Steve Inskeep talks to Mary Mitchell, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, about the firing of the police superintendent, a week after a video showed a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.

Two brothers blew themselves up in the Brussels bombings this week. There were also fraternal links in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the rampage in Paris last November.

Israeli officials are objecting to new European Union guidelines to require that labels of origin on goods sold in Europe from occupied territories be labeled that way — not as made in Israel.

Sea rise is threatening the way of life for a Panamanian indigenous group that lives on islands off the Caribbean coast. They're now pondering moving back to the mainland and abandoning their way of life.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with BuzzFeed photographer Ayman Oghanna about Kurdish fighters' efforts to retake Sinjar, Iraq, from ISIS.

Rinderpest, or cattle plague, was declared eradicated in 2011. But many research institutes still have samples of the rinderpest virus in storage. Disease experts want those samples destroyed.

The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan has divided the states. It requires carbon emission reductions from power plants, and more than two dozen states have sued to stop it. But many others are in favor. This tug of war is playing out in Colorado and could head to the state Supreme Court.

Michael Middleton, a recently retired administrator, has been appointed as the university system's interim president.

Simon Pegg and Lake Bell star in an inventive rom-com elevated by a script that reflects the true, eccentric workings of relationships.