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One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.

The U.S.-Pakistan relationship has hit a new low. Pakistan is nervous and indignant about Washington's agreement to supply India with nuclear fuel and equipment. Critics in Pakistan say that five years of support for President Bush's War on Terror have gone unrewarded.

Brazil's northern city of Manaus has become a sprawling city of some 2 million people. The city is also in the frontline of Latin America's war on drug trafficking — a conflict involving police, traffickers and their rivals.

As Israel intensified its attacks on the militant group Hamas, Gaza remained under a near-total communications blackout. More than 1.4 million people in Gaza are displaced, the U.N. estimates.

With the election in Germany bringing immigration to the fore, the NPR podcast Rough Translation visits an improv class where new arrivals learn the unwritten rules of German culture.

In the aftermath of ISIS, a nurse in Mosul took it upon herself to clear the streets of corpses that had been there for weeks and months. It got her in trouble but helped spark a volunteer movement.

As the period for changing health plans ends, many seniors are tuning out. They could wind up with a surprise next year: higher costs and reduced access to health care providers.

Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich.,, and California Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., say looming benefit cuts and mounting interest payments squeezing federal investments underline need for their plan.

Congress has a week to avoid a government shutdown. But the new speaker is facing familiar GOP divisions trying to pass his party's own spending bills and still hasn't decided on a short term bill.

The history of the jungle gym, and its sibling the monkey bars, is full of weird and delightful twists and sub-plots that take us from Japan to suburban Chicago and delve into theoretical math.