It's one of several suggestions that connect the ancient holiday, remembering the Israelites' flight to freedom, with the world's current refugee crisis.
Russia had been giving President Trump the soft touch. But following the U.S. missile strike on Syria, hopes for friendlier relations are fizzling and the Kremlin's rhetorical cease-fire is over.
Venezuelans are fleeing their nation in droves, which is having a big impact on their South American neighbors. Pacaraima in Brazil was a remote rural community whose residents slept with their doors unlocked. Now the mayor has declared a state of emergency, saying it's become a Wild West frontier town, awash with crime and social problems.
NPR's Planet Money team explores why Irish bars look so similar all over the world and what happens when you take an authentic national experience and turn it into an export.
NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Amr Al-Azm, an active member of the Syrian opposition based in the U.S., about the U.S. airstrikes against a Syrian government air base.
On Thursday, the U.S. launched a missile strike on a Syrian air base following allegations the Assad regime attacked civilians with chemical weapons. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Jennifer Cafarella from the Institute for the Study of War on how the U.S. response might affect the Syrian civil war.
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Antony Blinken, former deputy secretary of state under the Obama administration. Blinken was part of the U.S.-Syrian policy discussions back in 2013, when a much larger chemical attack took place that killed hundreds of people in a suburb of Damascus.
Russia blamed the strike on "speculations on children's photos." At the U.N., Ambassador Nikki Haley said, "The moral stain of the Assad regime could no longer go unanswered."
If you're traveling this spring, be sure you're vaccinated. 2017 is shaping to be bad year for the measles, with thousands of cases in Italy and Romania. And vaccine coverage is stagnating worldwide.