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If a fancy vacation won't fit into the summer budget this year, a good book can take you on a journey instead. Salon.com book critic Laura Miller shares her top picks for books that can take you to new places and cultures. And Bharati Mukherjee takes us on a trip to South Asia with Miss New India.

Global Witness says 177 environmental activists were killed in 2022, and the majority were murdered in Latin America.

The apparent unraveling of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career is playing like a soap opera in New York. Member station WNYC's Fred Mogul found a lot of people in New York City have dropped everything in favor of watching the real-life political drama unfold in the media.

Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan has an unusual dessert in her repertoire that's perfect for the holidays -- a gateau Basque from southwestern France. The cake is sturdy, easy to transport and can be eaten any time of day. What makes it so intriguing is that it has a clue as to what's baked inside, Greenspan says.

It's the seventh earthquake to roil this area in the past 10 days, and there have been several aftershocks. The U.N. has struggled to raise money for Afghans.

Writer and comedian Andy Borowitz read through more than 1,000 different authors before picking the top 50 for his new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion.

The Rangers won the title in five games — beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 Wednesday night. Rangers shortstop Corey Seager was the series MVP.

Lithuania's foreign minister visited Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. this week to make a pitch to the divided electorate in the U.S. that Europe needs American support to win the war in Ukraine.

The Olympics calls itself a "movement," but to most fans, Euro Cup soccer is a rock concert. In the coming months, Europe will host the French Open, Wimbledon, the Tour de France, the British Open and the Olympics. But the biggest draw may be soccer's quadrennial Euro Cup.

The speech from Israel's prime minister is likely to be contentious, with some Democratic members of Congress already signaling plans to boycott.