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Onetime targets of Brazil's dictatorship are worried that a candidate who openly admires the past military regime is expected to win Sunday's presidential election.

Brazil's northern city of Manaus has become a sprawling city of some 2 million people. The city is also in the frontline of Latin America's war on drug trafficking — a conflict involving police, traffickers and their rivals.

Congress has a week to avoid a government shutdown. But the new speaker is facing familiar GOP divisions trying to pass his party's own spending bills and still hasn't decided on a short term bill.

A major blizzard set off a series of issues last year that forced the airline to cancel more than 16,000 flights, stranding passengers across the U.S. Southwest says this year will be different.

Abood Okal, Wafaa Abuzayda and their 1-year-old son are back in Massachusetts after spending 27 days in Gaza. They don't know whether they'll be able to see their families or return to the area again.

The cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan is soaring. The Afghan and U.S. governments are working to counter the drug trade.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Eliana Johnson of The Washington Free Beacon, about ex-Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovich, Turkey and Syria, and the 2020 primary.

Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, is seeing strikes and protests amid rising crime and Brazil's worst recession. "We're asking God Almighty that this comes to an end," says a resident.

NPR Ed is celebrating 50 Great Teachers. Today: The story of a young algebra teacher in Oklahoma oil country, who has taken an unorthodox approach to classroom math.

NPR's Alt.Latino followed break-out trio Yahritza y Su Esencia on tour to document how their identity, and connection to regional Mexican music was shaped in their farmworker community.