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The songs we love from the first half of the year span a wide emotional and musical range, from wild percussive romps to raw pleas for empathy to Beyoncé's command to leave it all on the dance floor.

Forty million people rely on the river. ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten says that water scarcity in the West hasn't been recognized as the national emergency that it is.

The street violence between Israeli Jews and Arabs inside the neighborhoods they've been sharing has calmed, but the scars remain — and so have attitudes about any chance for coexistence.

What happened? Here are six lessons learned from Israel's experience — and one looming question for the future of the pandemic.

Monday was the first day of the Supreme Court's new term. It was the first time in more than a year that almost all the justices were at the court.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Oksana Syroyid, former deputy speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, about Russia's long history of meddling in Ukraine, and what she hopes for her homeland's future.

Benjamin Netanyahu ends the longest term for any Israeli prime minister, 12 years, with a history of alliance with U.S. Republicans.

2022's election to succeed outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promises to be a star-studded spectacle.

The president's German shepherd is back in Delaware getting some training after an incident at the White House.

The Biden administration hopes to help fund its agenda by cracking down on tax evasion, but its plan to require more bank information is drawing strong opposition from GOP lawmakers and banks.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jon Finer, deputy national security adviser, about the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Finer says Russia has massed enough troops at the border to invade Ukraine.

Israel says it assassinated a senior Palestinian leader of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. It's the first targeted killing by Israel in months, and the group vowed to retaliate.