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Protests of President Trump's immigration policies grew across the U.S. on Tuesday, with rallies held in New York City, Chicago and Seattle.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James about his new HBO series set in Jamaica. It is called "Get Millie Black."

, where two men have been arrested for statutory rape. The men, recent refugees from Iraq, married thirteen- and fourteen-year old sisters. While illegal in this country, such marriages are a common practice in rural Iraq.

U.S. News and World Report senior writer Joseph Shapiro reports on a new model of providing government assistance for the severely disabled. Called self-determination, it allows disabled people a much greater role in making decisions about their own care. Find out how a pair of twin sisters used self-determination to reunite after years of separation.

Her sister's hospitalization for depression sent Virginia Gonzales Torres on a mission to reform her country's mental health system. Some 25 years later, she's founded a series of group homes and set the standard for how developing countries can treat the mentally ill. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Diane Arbus' mysterious photo of girl twins is one of modern photography's most recognizable images. On Morning Edition, as part of NPR's Present at the Creation series, Madeleine Brand has the story behind the famous 1967 photo of sisters who are identical but not the same.

If your son, sister or best friend is facing foreclosure, it may be tempting to bail them out. Generous impulses may have serious consequences, however, says personal finance expert Michelle Singletary.

A few weeks ago, comedian John Early answered trivia questions about the Brady Bunch. So when cartoonist Keith Knight and his sister Tracy requested a Brady Bunch game, the research was already done.

We'll hear excerpts from last night's addresses by Vice-President Al Gore and Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd. From Gore's speech, we'll hear his emotional memories of his sister, who died of lung cancer...and from Senator Dodd, a call for civility in the political arena.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on a new study showing that some women who are already at risk of breast cancer may have inadvertently increased that risk if they took birth control pills before 1975. Those pills had a higher level of the hormone estrogen than pills made later. The study looked at women who have already had a sister or mother with breast cancer.