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Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Giving it 0 percent, Don't Be Conservative With The Steamed Milk,and Elementary Reviews.

Eight of France's World Cup teams come from the suburbs of big cities — nonwhite areas known for poverty. France won in 1998 with a multiethnic team, bringing hope, but not much has changed since.

In Mexico, thousands of women are running for office, the largest number of female candidates ever taking part in the country's political future.

We preview Mexico's upcoming elections in which crime and corruption are among the big issues.

NPR's Susan Davis talks with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha about her new memoir which tells the story of her research that helped expose widespread lead poisoning of Flint, Mich.'s drinking water.

A new study finds that animals are becoming more active during the night in order to avoid humans. NPR's Susan Davis talks with one of the study's co-authors, Neil Carter.

This weekend, Youth Cinema Project students screened their films for the public. The program aims to create a pipeline to get kids of color in underachieving schools into the filmmaking industry.

It was 45 years ago this Sunday that one of the worst attacks on LGBTQ Americans left 32 people dead. For decades, homophobia led many to ignore the tragedy.

Over the weekend in Saudi Arabia, a ban was lifted and woman are allowed to drive. There are only a few driver's ed courses for women in the country, so many Saudi women still have to go to school.

Between the 1950s and mid-2000s international adoptions in the U.S. climbed. But after 2004, there was a sudden drop-off. We explore the history of American families adopting children from abroad.

If you are bitten by a Lone Star tick, you could develop an unusual allergy to red meat. And as this tick's territory spreads beyond the Southeast, the allergy seems to be spreading with it.

Transgender plaintiffs who think the compromise that replaced North Carolina's so-called "bathroom bill" is still discriminatory are heading back to…

President Donald J. Trump will join South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster at a campaign rally in Columbia Monday evening. McMaster is facing John Warren in a…

This is expected to be the final week of the current session of the North Carolina legislature and the House Monday is scheduled to vote on a bill that…

The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on North Carolina's case on partisan redistricting for now. Instead, the justices are sending the dispute over…

Duke Energy says state regulators' Friday order denying its request for a rate hike in its western North Carolina territory could still mean a small rate…

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NPR's Ron Elving speaks to Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson about House Republicans' push toward a vote on a so-called compromise immigration bill and more.

President Trump presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to Garlin M. Conner on Tuesday. Connor was a World War II soldier who ran ahead of his unit to call in artillery on German forces.

Steve Inskeep talks to Kay Andrade of Catholic Relief Services in San Salvador, about why migrants leave Central America. Reasons include fleeing violence and poor economic conditions.