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NPR's Skunk Bear blog received 300 nominations for our Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance. We have a winner: Elizabeth Tibbetts found her luck, and scientific insight, in tiny insect faces.

Rachel Martin talks to Colum Lynch of Foreign Policy magazine about the new U.N. sanctions on North Korea. The sanctions were not as strong as the Trump administration had hoped for.

President Obama is delivering his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. "Today a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," he says.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is in Washington as negotiations for the next phase of the ceasefire with Hamas get under way. NPR speaks with Israel's ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon.

Next week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol finally arrives in paperback, along with Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's memoir, journalist Fareed Zakaria's update on the post-American world, journalist Annie Jacobsen's look inside a top secret U.S. military base, and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's true tale of the survivors in a WWII plane crash.

The funding freeze comes weeks after the U.S. was soundly rejected in its attempts to block a resolution in the U.N. that called for countries not to move their embassies to Jerusalem.

Violence at a camp in Malakal, which is managed by the U.N., erupted on Feb. 17. A spokesperson expressed sympathy for lives lost but insisted the world body was able to protect many thousands more.

Does North Korea's test over the weekend mark a turning point? Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with Wilson Center analyst Abe Denmark.

A new independent review has found Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff in a United Nations aid agency called UNRWA have ties to terrorist groups.

South Korea says it is analyzing the military action to determine whether the six projectiles were rockets or missiles.