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Protests continue to rage in Lebanon where people are demanding an overhaul of their political system. The anger was sparked by plans to introduce a tax on WhatsApp calls, widely used in Lebanon.

Artist Faith Ringgold is best known for her story quilts which depict scenes of African-American life. But a new exhibit highlights the provocative paintings she made 20 years earlier — documenting the racial and political tumult of the 1960s.

Migrants from Syria and other nations are fleeing to Europe not just by sea but also over land via Turkey. In Bulgaria, one of the European Union's poorest nations, about 1,000 people used to cross the border in a year. Last weekend alone, 650 people tried to cross, most of them unsuccessfully.A version of this story originally aired on All Things Considered on June 17, 2015.

Mask-wearing hit an all-time high, but other COVID-19 precautions are less common now than last spring, a survey finds. Experts worry we're ill-prepared for the spread of more infectious new variants.

The Federal Reserve has issued new economic forecasts, acknowledging the outlook remains uncertain. COVID-19 vaccines offer hope for a turnaround in 2021, but the next few months could be challenging.

Criminal justice advocates are frustrated with inaction from the White House and Justice Department on clemency, reducing racial disparities in the justice system and improving prisons.

New COVID-19 vaccine boosters designed to combat recent subvariants of the coronavirus are being made available to people over 12 years old. We have some guidance on who should get one and when.

President Biden says the pandemic "is over," but public health experts, epidemiologists, infectious disease researchers and others strongly disagree, saying his remarks endanger efforts to save lives.

There are enough antiviral pills in the nation's strategic stockpile to treat 1.7 million people with monkeypox. But doctors, patients and advocates say getting the treatment is very hard.

Eight years before Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's president fled to Moscow after the Maidan protests forced him from office.