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NPR's David Greene talks to former Ambassador Douglas Lute, who served as the U.S. envoy to NATO from 2013 to 2017, on the challenges the 70-year-old military alliance faces.

The Middle East is facing its worst water crisis in decades. For three summers, the annual rains have failed to come. Farmland has dried up in Iraq, Syria, southeast Turkey and Lebanon. The dire conditions are creating a new phenomenon: water refugees.

Consisting of eggs, milk and honey, the drink was alternately reviled and beloved by those who remember being given it in childhood.

Voters in Alabama headed to the polls Tuesday to take part in the first election since federal courts ruled the state's map violated the Voting Rights Act.

Former Vice President Biden got in a spat with a voter in Iowa who challenged him on his son's business activity in Ukraine and his age. It's not the first argument he's had with a voter on the trail.

Since women started competing in elite athletics about 100 years ago, they have been subjected to questions over their sex, had to undergo humiliating sex eligibility tests and had careers ruined.

It's unclear whether the new law that requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

Karla Tatiana Vasquez's search for a favorite family recipe became a cookbook documenting the food and culture of El Salvador.

Ryne Sandberg, a Hall of Fame second baseman who became one of baseball's best all-around players while starring for the Chicago Cubs, has died. He was 65.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research, about Germany's weakened economy and its potential impact on the country's upcoming elections.