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Alarmed by what it sees as China's economic coercion and the declining competitiveness of its own firms, Japan is enacting a raft of economic security policies.

Three authors — Laura Lam, Amy E. Reichert and Scott Reintgen — weigh in on what the Harry Potter series has meant to them over the decades.

President Biden will meet with nearly a dozen Mideast leaders on a trip this week that will cover issues from Yemen to oil to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

David Dondero was born in Duluth, Minn. But the singer spent so much of his life on the road that he doesn't seem to be from anywhere. His drifter sensibility gives him unique perspective on the places he passes through. His sixth album is South of the South, a reference to Florida.

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

During a summit in France, European Union leaders issued a statement backing Ukraine's bid for membership but stopped short of an immediate welcome. The application process typically takes years.

Rents are skyrocketing and eviction moratoriums are ending. The story of one evicted family in Connecticut could foreshadow what's ahead for vulnerable communities.

Thousands of Chinese travel by bus, train and foot to Beijing in hope of finding a sympathetic and powerful official who will offer justice and come to their rescue. This system of petitioning is a throwback to imperial days, and fewer are finding satisfaction.

Federal agents say three college students claim they set church fires in Alabama last month as a prank, and then set others on fire to throw agents off track. The students have been arrested in a string of nine church fires.

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts begins a series of courtesy calls, meeting members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and leaders of both parties. Congress goes into recess at the end of July; confirmation hearings for Roberts could begin in September.