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As a Colombian-American singer-songwriter, Soraya has spent her life traveling between two worlds. NPR's Felix Contreras reports on Soraya's career and a personal challenge that threatened to derail it.

The Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha finds people in Lebanon mired in an economic crisis that makes eating or paying rent difficult — let alone taking part in family celebrations.

As the world watches for a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the anxiety in the U.S. is especially strong among those with ties to Ukraine — including a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Maryland.

Boyd Applegate has been dressing up as Santa Claus for more than 20 years. It's a pastime he unintentionally discovered while on the job as a big-rig truck driver. Every year, he makes under-the-tree gift deliveries designed for children to wake up and catch him in the middle of the night.

A 9-year-old boy wounded in a bombing attack in Iraq a few years ago is now in Southern California, ending a years-long struggle by a Hollywood screenwriter and other Americans to get the boy and his mother out of the country. Mostafa's odyssey began four years ago, when his neighborhood was hit by a U.S. cruise missile that strayed off course. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports -- see Mostafa's photo, and learn more about the Americans who helped him.

Many businesses have relied on high sales volume to make a profit, but higher costs for wholesale goods and dwindling inventory because of supply chain disruptions are forcing them to raise prices.

Four American soldiers have been arrested for allegedly participating in the rape and murder of a young Iraqi and her family in March. The charges follow the earlier arrest of Stephen Green, discharged from the Army for a personality disorder, for the same incident.

Joe Garcia had dropped off flowers at his wife's memorial on Thursday, The New York Times reported. He "pretty much just fell over" after returning home and died of a heart attack, his nephew said.

David Greenberger travels the country talking with older people and collecting their stories. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Edna Wofford told him about knowing a bit too much about the future. A collection of stories is on the CD The Mayor of Tennessee River: Music By Shaking Ray Levis.

Stanley Tookie Williams, a co-founder of the Crips gang, dies by lethal injection at San Quentin prison, where spent the last 25 years of his life. Supporters said the convicted killer was a changed man who worked from behind bars to end gang violence.