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Migrants from across the hemisphere are increasingly crossing the border in a remote corner of South Texas. The shift has big implications for border towns like Eagle Pass — and the entire country.

The United Nation says a famine is imminent in Gaza. NPR's Ailsa Chang checks in with Alex de Waal, leading scholar on famines, about the situation in the strip.

The trained painter is living in a tent in the crowded southern city of Rafah, where he paints and draws, even as he struggles to keep himself and his family alive.

As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, diaspora communities around the world can do little more than watch events unfold. But a Palestinian business owner in a D.C. suburb is doing something about it.

Ahead of APEC, Bay Area officials had warned commuters of a planned one-lane closure on the Bay Bridge. But traffic Thursday morning came to a stand-still for hours when protestors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza blocked all lanes on the bridge’s upper deck.

In 1982, local militias allied with Israel killed hundreds in Lebanon's Shatila camp. While much has changed in the camp in the last four decades, Palestinians still hold the memory.

King Abdullah of Jordan visits the White House on Monday — on his diplomatic tour to push for a Gaza cease-fire. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Family clans in Gaza are being called on to help distribute aid to a starving population. Here's why it matters and how it could shape postwar security.

A look at one man in Gaza who went from being a successful cattle farmer to now living in a van with his family. They have no water and little hope.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Zaher Sahloul of the medical aid charity MedGlobal about the status of his staff in Gaza, and the conditions for patients in hospitals there.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sanam Vakil of Chatham House, a British think tank, about a weekend summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Israel has destroyed tens of thousands of residences in Gaza since war broke out last October. A U.N. official says the widespread or systematic destruction of homes should be considered a crime.