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Former U.S. diplomat Martin Indyk, who has spent his career trying to fix problems in the Middle East, says it’s time to rein in our grandiose vision for the region in exchange for something more attainable.

The 17-year-old accused of killing two was a police youth cadet in the Chicago suburbs. He said on social media that he went to Wisconsin to assist police.

On Tuesday, it will be a year since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. Now there are almost 24 million cases and nearly 400,000 people are dead.

There's a growing effort to actually test whether aid programs work. But how much has it accomplished?

With such large swaths of the American labor force leaving their jobs, the scales of power are tipping in the direction of workers. Here's how employers can entice and keep them.

For Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR's Joseph Shapiro looks back at the 1977 protests in San Francisco that forced the government to honor its promises to disabled Americans.

Once seen as among the most generous of employers, Starbucks is now grappling with disillusionment among its workers. Since December, 20 stores have unionized with more filing for elections every day.

Melodrama is essential to any American soap opera, and the same holds true for their Chinese counterparts. Rachel DeWoskin talks about her role as an aggressive Westerner in a Chinese daytime drama, and her new book, Foreign Babes in Beijing.

In Montana and across the nation, homeless shelters report the worrisome trend that seniors are a growing proportion of their residents.

The first six albums from hip hop group De La Soul are finally out on streaming platforms after years being tied up in legal disputes.