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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech in front of the National Museum during Hungary's National Day celebrations on Friday in Budapest. Hungary's National Day celebrations commemorate the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy.

EU Struggles To Rein In Hungary's Hard-Line Government

The center-right European People's Party faces off with its Hungarian partners that keep bashing Brussels and migrants.

Shakir Everett helps his niece, Janai Williams, 2, across the monkey bars at Mildred Helms Park in Newark. The playground is an asset in the daytime, but a "terror zone" at night, with drug and gang activity, neighbors say.

In Newark, Reversing 40 Years Of Neighborhood Neglect

Newark, N.J., has spent decades in decline. Mayor Ras Baraka is trying to turn the city around, with intensive investment in two tough neighborhoods. Residents say he has a lot of history to overcome.

Group Claims Responsibility For Pakistan Attack; Targeted Christians

In Lahore, at least 70 people were killed by a suicide bomber on Sunday. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. It says its target was Christians, but Muslims were also killed.

Federal dollars speed up work on safe streets, but money isn't the only roadblock

Cities across the country are using billions of dollars in federal funding to make streets safer. But in some places, that's accelerating conflict with local residents who don't like the changes.

'Punching The Air' Tells A Story Of Hope Behind Bars

Author Ibi Zoboi and activist Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, turn his childhood pain into poetry in this new novel in verse, about a Black teenager convicted of a crime he didn't commit.

Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared

"The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. The book, set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973, is part horror novel and part supernatural thriller. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.

A re-created section of the fort wall in the English colony of Jamestown, Va., sits on top of the original post holes. The fort was thought to have been lost to the James River, but was rediscovered by excavations that began in 1994. Since then, approximately 2 million artifacts have been recovered.

With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear

By the end of the century, ocean levels could rise by 2 or 3 feet. That's enough to flood the colonists' first settlement at Jamestown, Va. And it's putting pressure on archaeologists to get as many artifacts out of the ground as quickly as possible — before it's too late.

The port of Izmail on the Danube River, on Ukraine's far southern border with Romania, is one of the few Ukrainian-run ports still operating in the country.

The once-quiet southwestern corner of Ukraine is now playing a key role in trade

As the Russian invasion blocks much of Ukraine's food exports elsewhere, ports in the far south are the few Ukrainian-run transit points for goods in and out of the country.

Hospital employees walk underground in a hallway at Galilee Medical Center, a community hospital in Nahariya, in northern Israel.

Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

Across Israel, especially in the north, hospitals are setting up underground or fortified care facilities as fallout from war with Hamas intensifies fighting with militants in neighboring Lebanon.

For Nourished By Time, music is a labor of love — and a life of labor

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Marcus Brown, the musician who records as Nourished By Time. His new album takes inspiration from the working class sounds of Baltimore house music.

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