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Minneapolis braces for the start of the trail of Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer charged with murdering George Floyd. The Floyd family held a vigil Sunday night at a church near where Floyd was killed.

A military balloon became unmoored on Wednesday and drifted from Maryland for 3.5 hours into Pennsylvania. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with LA Times reporter David Willman about the blimp.

This year, many national and state polls were off in the presidential election, suggesting a more apparent outcome in favor of Joe Biden. NPR discusses what might have gone wrong.

Julius Jones has spent the past 20 years behind bars for a killing he says he did not commit. An Oklahoma parole board is set to decide Monday whether he gets closer to possible release.

Swedish writer Karin Tidbeck's debut story collection, Jagannath, is suffused with the myths of her homeland — and the American oddities she picked up as a student here. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says the stories are weird — but it's a good kind of weird.

Jonathan Gottschall is an English professor fed up with academia's ugly jargon. He recommends three books that help writers with their prose. Has a book ever helped you with your composition skills? Tell us about it in the comments.

How can we understand the experiences of those who have lived through war? What do they have to teach us? Author Hilary Thayer Hamann's favorite book attempts to answer these questions, and reinforces just how beautifully implausible life during conflict can be. It's The War by Marguerite Duras.

What makes a memorable character? It is the one who changes the most throughout the book? The one who makes a personal discovery? Or is it simply the most eccentric who we love? Actor Simon Pegg says that for his favorite literary protagonist, all three apply.

The wait has been long and the predictions many, but according to Christian broadcaster Harold Camping, the enlightened will finally be called home on Oct 21. Author Rhoda Janzen offers three redeeming suggestions to help you prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.

Sarah Rose's For All the Tea in China tells the story of how Britain hijacked control of the 19th century tea trade by transplanting production of the popular drink to India.

Fortune's Bethany McLean wrote about Enron in the book The Smartest Guys in the Room. She tells Steve Inskeep that Ken Lay's perpetual optimism was a liability when it came to the realities of Enron's troubled business.

Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has reshuffled his cabinet, replacing several key ministers.

Leaders of Southeast Asian nations attended the emergency summit about the situation in Myanmar, where the military has killed nearly 750 civilians since the coup in February.

The European Commission president says she expects all 27 EU member states will accept visitors who've received COVID-19 vaccines, but the CDC is still warning against travel to much of Europe.

A major civil rights group is demanding the attorney general pause federal grants to local police until he confirms they aren't engaging in discrimination, citing more police killings of Black people.

A review from public safety experts and world economists says the benefits to society and police departments outweigh the costs of cameras.

The House Judiciary Committee released testimony from the former president's White House counsel, Don McGahn, who said Trump's repeated phone calls made him feel "frustrated, perturbed, trapped."

Almost 72,000 children tested positive in just the last week of July. However, child hospitalizations and deaths related to the virus remain low.

The ruling is the culmination of a five-year investigation undertaken by the NCAA following the eruption of the sexual assault scandal at the Christian university in Waco, Texas, in 2016.

An investigation is underway into the government's disastrous response to the pandemic. In particular, lawmakers are examining the president's denialism, failure to buy vaccines and corruption.

Cases among children have been steadily growing, but the numbers appear to show that severe illness, hospitalization and death are rare in children infected with the coronavirus.

"We are in a major surge now as we're going into the fall, into the school season. This is very serious business," Fauci said. He urges states and localities to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for teachers.

The Federal Reserve is adopting new restrictions on investments after active trading last year by two regional Fed bank presidents drew criticism.

New research shows people with substance use disorders are significantly more vulnerable to a breakthrough infection of COVID-19.

Every large federal income tax refund is reviewed by a little-known committee in Congress. NPR's Planet Money podcast goes over the committee's purpose and a refund for Trump its been reviewing.