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Egyptian authorities' efforts to prevent organizations that promote democracy from freely working inside their country have now ensnared the son of a U.S. cabinet secretary.

The campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney helped pen the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation news release about the February event.

McConnell was the architect of the sanctions against Myanmar and over the past few months, he's seen country race toward democracy.

The violent crackdown against protesters continues to worsen, and there is growing concern about a full-scale civil war. Syria has rejected an Arab League plan, but the U.N. Security Council could soon take up the matter.

Some love it; some hate it: How one photographer has captured a portion of the South for almost four decades.

A road trip from Michigan to Alabama places the Watson family in Birmingham in 1963, just as racial tensions are roiling. Christopher Paul Curtis draws upon his own experiences growing up in the 1960s for this Newbery Honor-winning novel.

On a recent visit to the Monterey Bay Area, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar voiced his support for making Fort Ord lands a National Monument. KAZU’s…

Dennis and Buelah Apple came to StoryCorps to talk about their son Denny. Nearly 21 years ago, Denny came down with mononucleosis. Before going to bed one night, he took some medicine and talked about where he wanted to sleep.

There will be "disdain and scorn" because the U.S. didn't come to the "moral assistance" of Iranians who protested in the streets of Tehran in 2009, the Arizona senator says. The president has said his administration did respond forcefully.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a Christian conservative who adamantly opposes legalized abortion and same-sex marriage, likely won't win Florida, and he's polling nationally at about 16 percent. But he could have a big impact on the GOP race in the Sunshine State and beyond.