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Russian authorities seized an ally of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and shipped him off to do military service in the Arctic.

In Oregon, Harney County's economic hardships became a flashpoint four years ago when armed, far-right militias took over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Today the county's economy is rebounding.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with The Washington Post's Cairo bureau chief Sudarsan Raghavan about the foreign countries pouring weapons and mercenaries into Libya's civil war.

Along Lake Victoria, women fishmongers often engage in transactional sex with fishermen — a practice that contributes to Kenya's high rate of HIV. One group is challenging that convention.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amy Morris-Hall and Pat Fountain of Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mich., about the birth of the zoo's new black rhino calf. The species is critically endangered.

South Korea was first and the largest source of children for international adoptions, with the U.S. as their chief destination. Now, some adoptees are returning to South Korea to trace their roots.

This year marked a turning point in how the United States confronts domestic terrorism. The country began taking far-right extremism seriously amid a resurgence of white nationalist violence.

Every December former President Obama releases a list of his favorite songs, books and movies. NPR's David Greene talks with Jay Ruttenberg of the comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader.

The Broadway songwriter died in Miami of pulmonary complications, according to his publicist.

A college student in Croatia was swapping hangover stories with friends when he thought — shouldn't stories this good be preserved? And with that, Croatia's Museum of Hangovers was founded.