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Missouri regulators listed ZIP codes that qualify as having historic incarceration rates for marijuana offenses in the new cannabis rules. None are in north St. Louis where about half of the state’s Black population resides.
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Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated PressAt supersonic speeds, F-16 jets chased down an unresponsive pilot who flew a civilian plane over the nation's capital and crashed in southwest Virginia. The FAA and NTSB are investigating. -
The debt ceiling deal passed by Congress fast tracks the long-stalled and controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline that stretches across West Virginia and into Virginia.
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The stories of refugees crossing the border from Sudan to Chad, tell of horror, destruction and nonstop fighting, in a dreadful deja vu of Darfur's genocidal past.
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NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with media tycoon Byron Allen about the future of Black ownership in American media.
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Guitarist, composer, arranger and producer Yasser Tejeda, from the Dominican Republic, has a new album out.
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China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests. -
Immigrants have long been the backbone of restaurant kitchens. Now they're dominating the industry's top awards for chefs, with a majority of nominations going to immigrants or children of immigrants.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, research and policy director at the Conflict and Environment Observatory, about a plan to take 1.1 million barrels of oil off a decaying tanker in the Red Sea.
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A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how they could be used to monitor us. Then came Edward Snowden.
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Workers fleeing the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine describe arrests and torture at the hands of Russian forces they say have turned the plant into a military base.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to South African musician Jonathon Butler about his new jazz album "Ubuntu," which was inspired his upbringing during the Apartheid and a Zulu philosophy of unity.
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In her filmmaking debut, "Past Lives," Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song draws from her own experience of reuniting with a childhood friend after decades apart.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial Darrin Bell about his graphic memoir, "The Talk." The title refers to talks about racism Black parents often give their kids.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with filmmaker Rachel Fleit about her new documentary "Bama Rush," which follows four young women who hope to join sororities at the University of Alabama.
