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The immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has pushed many people in the city to stay at home for the last few months. Doctors say the trend is alarming, and may have lasting effects.

A month after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the massive loss of life and ongoing needs are finally becoming clear.

A month has elapsed since the war ended in Sri Lanka. Yet people on that island nation are still trying to piece together their lives. Many have been celebrating the government's stunning defeat of the Tamil Tiger separatist rebels who it fought for nearly three decades, but the war has left many scars and much unsettled business.

One of the biggest hurdles to carrying out Trump's mass deportation plans is where to house the millions of people who are in the country without legal status. As many prisons and detention centers are already overcrowded, what options are there?

It's been a year of complacency deferred and sleeping giants roused. So it's only natural that much of 2017's best music would reflect that tumult, albeit in radically different ways.

States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal agencies. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

In his new book, conductor John Eliot Gardiner searches for clues to uncover what the great composer's life and personality were really like. He finds a man full of contradictions and unfathomable music — even "a great guy to go out and have a beer with."

A group of foreign ministers makes urgent calls for a sustainable cease-fire along the Israel-Lebanon border -- and the deployment of an international force under a United Nations mandate. Many of the ministers said they wanted an immediate end to the fighting -- but they could not agree on a way to achieve that.

The new collection of nearly 100 poems does what its title says — a CD included with the book features many of the 73 authors reading their work.

As many as 700,000 Lebanese civilians have fled their homes as a result of the Israeli campaign against Hezbollah. NPR's Jackie Northam focuses in on a family from the town of Srifa, deep in south Lebanon, which came under heavy Israeli bombing in the opening days of the conflict.