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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning economist Glenn Loury about his memoir: "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative."

Marianna Kiyanovska, one of Ukraine's leading poets, has been speaking about writing in wartime. Her latest collection, "The Voices of Babyn Yar," is about victims of the Holocaust.

Ukraine's president is in Brussels today to speak to European Union leaders about his plan to end the war in a year -- without ceding any territory to Russia.

NPR's Ailsa Chang and her team are reporting from Arizona, a key swing state that will help decide who becomes the next president.

The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting children from China. We interviewed adoptees in the U.S. to hear their reaction.

Climate change and habitat loss are driving bears into urban areas in search of food. In Boulder, Colo., people are making an effort to harvest residential fruit trees to deter visits from bears.

Alt.Latino has a new story in its series, Songs That Move You. Listener Claudia Cruz is reminded about Afro-Caribbean New York City in the 1980s.

Saturday's event features a Mardi Gras-style walking parade down Beach Boulevard. The more outrageous your costume, the better.

Thomas “Fats” Waller wrote such jazz standards as “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and “Honeysuckle Rose." In the 1930s, he was ranked at the top among African-American entertainers on stage and on the radio.

Harris made her case in an interview on Fox news, which followed a visit to Bucks County, Pa., where she gave a speech while flanked by dozens of Republicans who've endorsed her.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Juan Zarate, former assistant secretary of the Treasury, now managing partner at K2 Integrity, a financial risk consulting firm, about what sanctions would accomplish.

The money will go to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades, in what an attorney said was the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, author of "Tias and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raised Us."

Vice President Harris is racing to shore up support and turnout from Black male voters with new promises and a high-profile radio town hall.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gordon Sondland, a Republican donor and former ambassador to the European Union during the Trump administration, about why he's again supporting the former president.

A trailblazer of gender pay equity, Lilly Ledbetter has died. Her legal fight against a former employer brought attention to the issue, and paved the way for the Fair Pay Act of 2009.

The Canadian government has expelled six diplomats in response to alleged criminal activities by Indian government agents. Canadian officials link the agents to homicides and acts of violence.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with "Washington Post" business reporter Hannah Ziegler about a new feature on Zillow that will include climate risk ratings for new home listings.

We take a look at what Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are doing to reach voters in battleground states and in demographics that have not been favoring them so far.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Colin Polsky, a professor of geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, about how Hurricane Milton is raising critical questions about the future of the sunshine state.

This week, Taylor Swift debuted her engagement ring and the parasite world brought us something gross to worry about.

United Nations aid officials and Israeli human rights groups say Israel's latest offensive in north Gaza forces residents to choose between leaving or starving. Israel allowed in food after Vice President Harris showed concern.

Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.

Purely coincidentally, Americana musician Rhiannon Giddens' new single, "Swannanoa Tunnel," was released shortly after Hurricane Helene practically leveled the region around Swannanoa, N.C.

After Hurricane Andrew decimated parts of south Florida in 1992, state officials mandated sweeping building code revisions for new construction. Those changes continue to limit damage from storms now.