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After 24 years in power, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has called for a multi-candidate election in September. Egypt has been singled out by the Bush administration as a country that ought to lead the way to democracy in the Middle East. This is the first of three pieces on the prospect of democracy in the region.

This year, finalists in NPR's student podcast challenge asked big questions about hatred and love, identity and belonging.

Europe is a fractious continent, where decision-making can be slow and bureaucratic. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has spurred Europe and its leading institution, the EU, to unprecedented action.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, about a 71% increase in reported hate crimes in Los Angeles last year.

Russia's central bank sharply raised a benchmark interest rate to combat steep losses in the ruble's value as sanctions crimp Russian economic activity.

Low inventory, a scramble for available homes, and rising prices characterized 2021 in the McLean, Livingston, DeWitt County region, according to the Mid-Illinois Association of Realtors.

Millennials, particularly those with less education, are upending the traditional order of love, marriage, baby carriage. Many say they don't feel financially secure enough to tie the knot.

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, and many of the war tactics are chillingly similar to what we're seeing in Ukraine now. Did Russia develop its "playbook" 14 years ago?

As Russia's war in Ukraine grinds through its fourth week, President Vladimir Putin's greatest accomplishment so far may be one he never intended: a unified Europe.

Firefighting crews were battling to keep the fire in northern New Mexico, the largest fire burning in the U.S., from making another run across the state's drought-parched landscape.