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Once England's most iconic soccer club, Manchester United is struggling on and off the pitch. Are its U.S. owners running it into the ground or playing a long game?

Lauren Frayer covers India for NPR News. In June 2018, she opened a new NPR bureau in India's biggest city, its financial center, and the heart of Bollywood—Mumbai.

The true-crime series re-examines the killings of 28 young black males. "It was the largest task force ever assembled ... it ended up getting the nation's attention," co-creator Donald Albright says.

In her new book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams offers her take on why breasts are getting bigger and developing earlier, why tumors seem to gravitate toward the breast, and how toxins from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with author and journalist William Neuman about the tangled relationship between the U.S. and Venezuela, and America's re-assessment based on the new global oil dynamic.

The Kansas City Star apologized for failing generations of Black people over its 140-year history. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Star reporter Mara Rose Williams and editor Mike Fannin.

A trillion dollars worth of American farmland will change hands in the coming years. Wealthy investors are likely to buy more of it with the power to shape rural communities and the environment.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jay Caspian Kang and William Garcia-Medina on the complex issues surrounding race relations within Asian and Latino communities and movements for Black Lives.

Steve Martin, John Legend, William Shatner, Lucius and more join hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton for this year's All Songs Considered holiday extravaganza, which unfolds like a bad high school play.

Two British scientists say that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could mean more unpredictable turbulence on trans-Atlantic flights.

A bipartisan bill to address one aspect of the opioid epidemic is working its way through the North Carolina legislature. The bill would allow any…

After his debit card was declined at an Applebee's, Michael Williams pulled out the big bucks. He tried to pay with a $1 trillion bill. The U.S. has never issued such a bill.

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials have been together for almost 25 years. The group has a new CD, Rattleshake. Ed talks about his music and the influence on his life of his uncle, the legendary Chicago bluesman J.B. Hutto.

Dealing with a potentially fatal cancer is difficult for anyone. Doctors with cancer face a special challenge. They're used to giving medical care, not getting it. Two doctors, Elizabeth McKinley and William Tierney, share what they learned as patients.

A new solo release from Daniel Lanois; The early demo sessions of Willie Nelson; A new look at Lucinda Williams; Gentle tunes from Mali: Boubacar Traore; Memphis bluesman Robert Belfour and more.

A building in Virginia that's believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children has been moved to a museum.

Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William and Mary, discusses whether Neanderthals had "religious capacity."

Black-owned businesses were among the hardest hit during the pandemic, in part because many started with less capital. The board chair of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber of Commerce tells WFAE's "Morning Edition" host, Marshall Terry, that those that survived learned the importance of forging relationships with everyone from banks to fellow business owners.

A look at why crowdfunders across the U.S. are raising money for disadvantaged youth, many of them people of color, to see the superhero movie Black Panther.

Democrats have proposed several bills in response to last month's deadly attack near the University of California-Santa Barbara. One dubbed the"gun violence restraining order gets a hearing Tuesday.