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Sacramento continues its dream run as the first lower-division soccer team to get to the final since 2008 – with a chance to become the first non-MLS champion since 1999. (Image credit: Max Whittaker for NPR)

For years, families of those held abroad have been warned that speaking out could put their loved ones in greater danger. Today, many see going public as their best card to play. (Image credit: Shuran Huang for NPR)

China’s leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won’t hit its official 5.5% growth target this year and said Thursday they will try to prop up sagging consumer demand. (Image credit: Ng Han Guan/AP)

Criticized for making Israel ‘extra-polarizing issue,’ unclear how lobby will navigate US general elections as endorsed candidates from opposing parties may run against each other

Twelve musicians from Israel and abroad will perform and jam with audiences for a week as part of Árkho project, at Israel-Palestinian culture house

In a new book, scholar Rafael Medoff shows how outlets downplayed news of the genocide until late 1943, as FDR’s government and even Jewish leaders felt little pressure to act

A central site that contains a historic first well is on course for redevelopment after a global search turns up dozens of collective owners from the US to Sweden

Agriculture Ministry, Nature Authority, open probe into Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin after social media post shows elephants apparently clinging to wall for shade

Canada defeated Sweden to win the world junior hockey championship in January 2018, a victory watched by a huge audience in a hockey-obsessed country. Five months later, members of that celebrated team attended a charity event in an Ontario city,

More than six years after the lauded visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé returns, evolves and responds to a very different world. (Image credit: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio Mar)