As Halloween approaches, it's time to start thinking about costumes for the upcoming festivities. But first, NPR wants to hear about your favorite unique holiday traditions.

Today marks one year since Hamas ambushed Israel, which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza. Now we take a look at how people have been impacted. And, how the Middle East conflict impacts Michigan voters.

At Kibbutz Be'eri, where Hamas-led militants killed more than 100 people last Oct. 7, residents are grieving, reburying their loved ones — and returning to live in their old homes.

Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.

As the expanding Mideast war nears a one-year milestone, Israel launched targeted strikes in Lebanon overnight, where the conflict pushed further north.

Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and ... positive ... consequences.

An Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in central Gaza early Sunday. Israeli planes also lit up the skyline across the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking what the military said were Hezbollah targets.

Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals who will one day elect his successor.

Powerful new explosions rocked Beirut's southern suburbs late Saturday as Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, also striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time.

Around 30 missiles appear to have landed around Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, although damage was limited.

NPR correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu reports from one of wartime Sudan's few remaining hospitals, on the edge of the capital Khartoum.

You might expect the world’s biggest Elvis Presley festival to be in Las Vegas, or Memphis, Tenn. One small UK seaside town holds an annual -- and possibly the world's biggest -- Elvis Presley festival.

The latest strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United Nations-declared buffer zone.

The governor of the South Kivu province said the death toll was provisional and the number of fatalities could rise further. He said there were 278 people on board, according to local authorities.

Crude oil prices have risen as Iran and Israel trade attacks, but not as much as you might expect. One reason? OPEC+ could pump a lot more oil if it wanted to.