NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, about that country's democratic decay under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

An Arctic air mass kept its grip on much of the central and eastern U.S. on Friday, plunging temperatures to record lows as snow blanketed central Colorado and the Pacific Northwest braced for an ...

John Booth, 40, left the small community of Noatak at about 3 p.m. on Feb. 14 and didn’t show up in Kotzebue, about 50 miles to the south, as expected, Alaska State Troopers said in a Feb. 16 dispatch ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 95 million people are facing gripping cold Tuesday as a polar vortex sends temperatures plunging to record levels, closing schools, bursting pipes and forcing ...

Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, told Morning Edition's Leila Fadel that meeting the two-week deadline will be a challenge for school ...

Churchill, Canada — Here on the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers and scientists like Geoff York. Buggies traverse the ...

Photo by Jessica Fadel on Unsplash UPDATE ... searching for a snowmobiler who vanished in freezing weather above the Arctic Circle, officials said. John Booth, 40, left the small community ...

Rescuers in Alaska are searching for a snowmobiler who vanished in freezing weather above the Arctic Circle, officials said. John Booth, 40, left the small community of Noatak at about 3 p.m. on ...