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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about how recent events affect special counsel Robert Mueller 's investigation.

Florida has become the first state in the U.S. to see 100% adoption of a cashless payment solution for the state’s growing medical marijuana market.

Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King and Zazie Beetz star in Jeumes Samuel's western, which has a fictional story, but is based on real people.

Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history. But she withdrew from the last summer Olympic Games due to mental health struggles. Her journey is chronicled in the new Netflix series Simone Biles Rising.

When ISIS began expanding its hold on Iraq and Syria, tens of thousands of foreign fighters went to join the caliphate. In Norway, two teenage girls decided to go too. It's the subject of a new book.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist Ian Urbina about how upwards of 100,000 North Koreans have been sent to work in China, often in conditions of captivity.

In Minneapolis, some immigrants who have not gone to work because they fear being detained by ICE are at risk of eviction. There's a growing number of grassroots efforts to provide rent relief.

In the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria, several survivors stayed alive by chance when their collapsed walls provided protection.

Globally, climate change is fueling migration. Blocking that migration has become a winning platform for far-right political parties.

Nico Iamaleava is leaving Tennessee after a public NIL renegotiation, days before the spring transfer portal window opens. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Richard Johnson from CBS Sports about the standoff between the university and the student athlete.

Wisconsin voters decide on the state's next Supreme Court justice, and with it, the possibility of issues like abortion, voting and union rights. It's the most expensive court race in U.S. history.

With the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris over, the sprint is on to campaign for votes -- especially in swing states. We examine each campaign’s post-debate strategies.

NPR's fifth annual Student Podcast Challenge received more than 3,300 entries from students in high school and middle school. We'll hear the finalists from students in grades 5 through 8.

The historian Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise, outlines a forgotten history of McDonald's as a site of social protest and a mechanism black entrepreneurs hoped might spur black liberation.

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is set to become the first U.S. athlete to compete in the Olympic Games while wearing a hijab.

In Dubuque, a majority of working-class Catholic voters flipped from Democrat to Republican in 2016 — for the first time since Dwight Eisenhower. Will Democrats draw them back in 2020?

The volatile world of New York's art scene is the setting for the newest novel by Rachel Kushner. A young woman, Reno, has come to the city to turn a love of motorcycles into a career in art, but she winds up involved in a radical political movement in Italy.

Five years after Hurricane Maria, PRoTechos, a local nonprofit, helps repair damaged roofs the government overlooked or that were fixed poorly. It also trains people to make future repairs themselves.

NPR's Scott Detrow and Tamara Keith have long discussed the merits of brining a Thanksgiving turkey. Chef and cookbook author Sohla El-Waylly joins this year's discussion and offers some tips.

Inflation is chipping away at the value of gifts, putting a squeeze on donors and nonprofits alike.

A New York grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump after hearing testimony related to hush money payments made to cover up an alleged affair. He appears before a judge Tuesday.

A New York grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump after hearing testimony related to hush money payments made to cover up an alleged affair. He appears before a judge Tuesday.

The White House this week turns its attention to a sweeping policy review on health care. President Obama will host a White House summit later this week on the health care system. On Monday, he nominated Kathleen Sebelius, the Democratic governor of Kansas, as his new secretary of health and human services.

The Florida Senate will move forward next week with a proposal that would require all 12 state universities to adopt a "block" tuition policy by the fall…

Jewel's new single is called "Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love."