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The guilty verdict against the former officer has added new urgency around stalled talks on legislation to ban chokeholds and end qualified immunity for police. But the path remains far from clear.

It's Opening Day in baseball, and that means you'll still be able to eat unhealthy food while watching the game. But ordering that hot dog or beer will be different this year.

Law enforcement organizations across the country condemned former police officer Derek Chauvin's actions, but efforts to craft new local and national policing standards are riven by disagreement.

Rachel Cusk follows her acclaimed Outline trilogy with this story about a woman whose lifelong obsession with a truculent painter is tested when he comes to stay at a cottage on her property.

Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was shot dead by sheriff's deputies as they arrived to carry out search and arrest warrants last month. The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered his eulogy.

President Trump says emergency action will be taken to provide financial relief for workers who are ill, quarantined, or caring for others due to the coronavirus. What does that relief look like?

Doctors say India's battle with COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented rise in mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection that preys on people with weakened immune systems.

Summer music festivals and concerts are coming back after a long pause. Big festivals like Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Governors Ball have all announced their lineups. But will they be safe?

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Wayne Kendall, an attorney representing the family of Andrew Brown Jr., after a prosecutor in North Carolina said sheriff deputies were justified in the fatal shooting.

Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else.

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews New Yorker writer Adam Entous about his story on the role Ukraine's former prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, played in the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Rescue crews in Surfside, Fla. are still searching for survivors after a 12-story oceanfront condo partially collapsed. Dozens of people are unaccounted for as crews sift through tons of rubble.

Health officials around the world have announced renewed restrictions this week as they see clusters of outbreaks from the delta variant of the coronavirus.

After a brutal heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Vivek Shandas of Portland State University about the impact climate change is having on cities.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Katie Park of The Marshall Project about tracking COVID-19 in prisons.

The sudden influx means resettlement agencies are rushing to secure a range of services for evacuees as they begin a new chapter of their lives.

At the end of this week, the government's latest snapshot of the job market will be released. David Greene talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, about the unemployment rate.

D'Wayne Edwards created the Pensole Footwear Design Academy to try and diversify the sneaker business. Edwards was one of the first black designers in the business and created the academy, in part, because of how difficult it was for him to get started.

Moammar Gadhafi was a young army officer when he first seized power in a September 1969 coup. On Thursday, Libyan officials announced that he had been captured and killed.

Texas has no state-mandated minimum wage and forbids cities or counties to pass their own. But a group of religious activists in San Antonio is making headway on a living wage for city employees.

NATO says a man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed an international service member in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. He was the 10th U.S. service member killed in so-called "insider" attacks this month by Afghans in uniform or others with access to NATO bases.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Todd Stern, the Obama administration's climate envoy, who negotiated the climate deal in Paris. He calls it a "very important start" in the fight against climate change.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney Benjamin Crump about the arrest of two men in connection with Arbery's death.

Kenichi Togawa was working at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan the day the earthquake and tsunami struck. His family is still living in temporary housing. For many people, the stress and isolation brought on by the disaster could pose more persistent hazards than the radiation.

Women who took aspirin at least a couple of times a week for five years or more cut their risk of melanoma by 30 percent. The new study adds to the mounting pile of research suggesting that cheap, common aspirin lowers the risk of many cancers, including colon, breast, esophagus, stomach, prostate, bladder and ovarian cancer.