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An Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in central Gaza early Sunday. Israeli planes also lit up the skyline across the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking what the military said were Hezbollah targets.(Image credit: Abdel Kareem Hana)

Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals who will one day elect his successor.(Image credit: Andrew Medichini/AP)

There are barriers preventing many Latino farm workers in northeastern Tennessee from trying to get help, but the extended Latino community is bringing the help to them.(Image credit: George Walker IV)

Margaret Atwood knows that she scares people. She opens up about that perception and also reflects on the bad advice she's received in her career and how she takes vengeance.(Image credit: Mike Coppola)

New York is known for its street food vendors. NPR spent time with a recently arrived migrant who is hitting the streets to sell for the first time, but has to overcome a huge hurdle: his shyness.(Image credit: Wendy Correa for NPR)

Powerful new explosions rocked Beirut's southern suburbs late Saturday as Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, also striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time.(Image credit: Hussein Malla/AP)

The former President spoke at a campaign rally in the same location that a bullet grazed his ear in July. The shooter killed a man and injured two other people.(Image credit: Evan Vucci)

A new storm is approaching the west coast of the Florida, threatening to inflict heavy rain, strong winds and flash flooding in the already-storm battered state. (Image credit: NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Earth Science Branch)

Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and ... positive ... consequences.(Image credit: Muntaka Chasant)