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Public schools are offering classes in Mandarin Chinese with an eye to prepare students for a future where China has an even greater influence in the world. But critics say the money could better be spent on basic skills, such as math and science.

Four decades into his career, Lloyd Cole's On Pain finds this purveyor of guitar pop still exploring that hazy space where people question themselves and make excuses or promises they might not keep.

An ambitious university-consolidation plan that folds Florida’s youngest and smallest colleges into the University of Florida was backed by a key House…

Congress has passed a long-debated measure to stop health care providers from billing patients for charges not covered by their insurance. Here's how the new protection works.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous "Finest Hour" speech marks its 65th anniversary Friday. It's widely considered one of the greatest political speeches ever, and rallied a war-weary Britain at a time when it appeared to be losing World War II. Producer Adam Burke examines the speech and how it affected those who heard it.

Salvador Dalí's friendship with Harpo Marx led him to write a Marx Brothers movie treatment, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Studio head Louis B. Mayer killed it, but it lives again as a graphic novel.

Next term the Supreme Court will take up a voting case involving the "independent state legislature" theory. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to New York University law professor Melissa Murray about the case.

Your doctor and lawyer may know a lot about you. But in a time when we are using computers to socialize, keep track of finances, do work and store family photos, your IT person probably knows more.

Legendary actress, dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen is directing the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' play, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Allen talks about the challenge of adapting this classic American story for an African-American cast, and about the cultural challenges of show business.

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Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska about where he disagrees with President Trump. But that doesn't include Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch.

Opening statements are to begin in the trial of three men — the last of those accused in a failed plot to kidnap Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Nine others were convicted; while two were acquitted.

A crew of four civilians will hitch a ride from SpaceX, spending three days in orbit inside their spaceship.

Biathlon is the only winter Olympic sport in which the U.S. has never medaled. But this year, the U.S. has the two standout biathletes and a coach who grew up on the doorstep of the Olympic venue.

With deep-pocketed candidates and super PACs with big donors, Republicans are expected to spend $1 billion in this primary alone. It's likely going to be the most ever for a GOP primary.

Recognized in Time Magazine's 2007 list of the world's 100 most influential people, Senegal's Youssou N'Dour is known in some circles as "the most famous African singer alive." He discusses his new album (Rokku Mi Rokka) and the inspiring messages behind his lyrics.

The legendary composer and singer showed up at NPR's Culver City studios just before the dead of night to talk about her "helium voice," overcoming polio and painting songs with Bob Dylan.

A Martinez interviews Willie Grimes, who spent 24 years in prison, wrongly accused of rape, and Benjamin Rachlin, who chronicles his fight for exoneration in Ghost of the Innocent Man.

In 1973, Soylent Green imagined a New York City of 2022 — polluted, overcrowded, and facing environmental catastrophe. Other movies offered their own take on what was in store.

A top lacrosse team — Haudenosaunee Nationals — is reclaiming its Indigenous identity after generations of being known as the Iroquois Nationals. Current team members say that name was derogatory.

A disciplinary trial could end the career of Texas Court of Appeals Judge Sharon Keller who refused to keep her court open past 5 p.m. for a last-minute appeal by a death row inmate. The inmate was executed hours later. Chuck Lindell, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman who is covering the trial, offers his insight.

The photographer and folklorist documented a caravan of mule-driven wagons that left Mississippi to march on Washington 50 years ago to draw attention to poverty.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with philosopher James Brusseau of Pace University about the ethics of creating and using artificial intelligence chat bots using a person's voice.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Slotnick, senior aviation business reporter at the travel website The Points Guy, about COVID-related staffing that has led to thousands of flight cancellations.

NPR's Michel Martin travels to Chad, which has been inundated with refugees fleeing from neighboring Sudan.