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Photographer Issa Touma is the man behind an increasingly well-known photography festival in Aleppo, Syria. Touma uses his images to try to crowbar open Syrian cultural and intellectual life.

The themed party trend is on us again, and holiday garb bedecked with bells, lights and way too much tinsel is selling fast. Show us your best holiday monstrosity — use the hashtag #NPRuglysweaters.

King finished with 52% of the vote — a nearly 20 point spread from his closest competitor, former state Republican party chair Demi Kouzounas.

Jessica Pegula and Iga Swiatek were mid-point in a semifinal tiebreaker when dance-party staple "Cotton Eye Joe" rang through the stadium. The crowd might have liked it, but the players were thrown.

Recent anti-Syria protesters in Lebanon include some of the authors featured in an anthology called Transit: Beirut. Their highly personal, often experimental work offers glimpses of a different side of the city.

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal have advanced to a May 6 runoff in France's presidential elections. With most of the votes counted, Sarkozy took in more than 31 percent, with Segolene second at just under 26 percent.

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried for what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

Texas' 21st Congressional District has been solidly in Republican hands for decades, but an incumbent's retirement is sparking talk on the ground of a possible close race in a wave year.

David Greene talks to former Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi about times when he and his colleague Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday, went head-to-head on issues.

GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore could win Tuesday's special election, notwithstanding sexual misconduct allegations against him. A big reason is that Democrat Doug Jones supports abortion rights.