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The Arab Spring began in Tunisia in 2011 with the ousting of a dictator, but youth in that country seem unenthusiastic about elections on Sunday.

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more wounded when the blast went off during morning rush hour. Steve Inskeep talks to Mujib Mashal, a correspondent for The New York Times, who's in Kabul.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with Nickolay Mladenov, U.N. special envoy to Iraq, about the situation in northern Iraq, where the Islamic State is fighting for control.

Critics say the ads, created by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, are condescending and could have a negative effect on people who are overweight. But the company stands by the ads, saying the obesity problem is so big, they needed to take dramatic action.

The last remaining areas of the embattled Syrian town of Qusair fell to government forces and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah over the weekend. The main concern now is what's happening to the civilians.

How much can someone's face affect the sentence he receives in court? A lot, according to a study that asked people to rate the trustworthiness of convicted murderers based on their mugshots.

Tens of thousands of people are trying to flee Africa by boarding rickety and often overcrowded boats for the journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Many ships capsize or are abandoned by smugglers, and hundreds have already died en route. More than 10,000 people were rescued this week alone.

Voter registration has plummeted due to the coronavirus. But organizers are hoping to harness protesters' energy and are using the first mass gatherings of people in months to register new voters.

Over 100 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That number is climbing by about 3 million daily. We hear the latest information on how well the vaccines are working.

Indianapolis has a lot of people wearing electronic monitoring bracelets as part of its criminal justice system. But some are cutting them off, and there are significant gaps in monitoring.