Jaryn Blackshear-Bryant
St. Louis University has put its African American Studies department under review, along with 10 other arts and sciences programs. Students, staff and faculty say cutting or downsizing the department is nonnegotiable.
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Andrew Medichini/APOn Sunday, tens of thousands packed the main square in Florida, Uruguay, to watch Pope Leo speak. -
Alastair Grant/APComedian Brand faces a "significant" prison sentence, which a London court judge is set to hand down on Monday.
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COP31 - the annual UN negotiations on climate change - starts on Monday. The talks have been going on for decades, during which the planet has gotten hotter. So, do these climate talks really matter?
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alex Fogg, Natural Resources Chief of Okaloosa County, Florida, about efforts to deliberately sink the SS United States and create an artificial reef in its wreckage.
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The results of the U.S. midterms were closely followed overseas. NPR correspondents in Moscow and Beijing discuss how the elections are seen in the countries they cover.
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Chad Harbach's 2011 book "The Art of Fielding" was set in a fictional midwestern college. After 15 years, Harbach returns to the same school for his follow up, "The Brightness."
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Pope Leo holds an outdoor mass outside Montevideo, wrapping up his three day visit to the country before heading to Argentina - the home country of his mentor Pope Francis.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Takashi Yamazaki about his new movie, "Godzilla Minus Zero." In it, a new monster appears, and the line between friend and foe is obliterated.
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The Czech Republic is known for its beer, but hotter, drier summers are making it difficult to grow a key ingredient -- hops. Czech researchers are breeding new hop varieties to survive a changing climate.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Hogan Gidley, a Republican consultant and former White House Deputy Press Secretary during the first Trump administration, about the GOP's post-midterm strategy.
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Homelessness in the U.S. has dropped for the second year in a row, two analyses found. But the Trump administration and homeless advocates credit different reasons for the decline.
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Israel's president has tapped a lawmaker to try to form a new government. He has about six weeks to build a coalition.
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Democrats made sweeping gains in state legislatures across the country. We look at North Carolina and Arizona to see what that could mean.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to film critic Peter Chattaway about the Christian miniseries, "The Chosen," and about how viewers respond to portrayals of Jesus in films and on TV.
