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That's the situation in Syria, where bread shortages are now widespread — and the queues for daily rations stretch on and on. The same goes for gasoline.

It's part of an ongoing back-and-forth: Republican presidents ban U.S. funds for foreign aid groups that 'promote' abortion, Democratic presidents revoke the ban. This time things could be different.

The decision means at least five more months in custody for Lai, who publishes a prominent pro-democracy newspaper. His arrest comes amid a sweeping crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong.

The new ban is an expansion of the social network's rules against misinformation that could lead to imminent physical harm. It comes as governments prepare to roll out the first vaccinations.

NPR analyzed data by SafeGraph to determine the percentage of people who stayed at their "home" location for Thanksgiving as well as the percentage who traveled 31 miles or more.

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and medical consultant Naser Alazari about how TV is showing American viewers what fighting a pandemic truly looks like.

Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, told the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission that churches shouldn't return to in-person worship yet.

Despite differences across regions and language barriers, Black culture and the Black experience is shared almost everywhere.

So far, after a year of coronavirus, Americans have received a stimulus check of $1,200. And now, people might not get any more, partly due to fears among some lawmakers about the growing deficit. We talk about the facts and the fiction regarding the deficit.