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Isko Moreno, the celebrity mayor of Manila City, has launched a bid to succeed Rodrigo Duterte. At 46 years old, the former actor would represent generational change for the nation of 109 million.

This week Audie Cornish takes us deeper into the news that shaped the city of Birmingham, Alabama in the summer of 1963. Today, she visits the Boswell-Highlands golf course and talks to black golfers about the journey to desegregate the city's public greens.

The day after Philadelphia became the first U.S. city to reinstate an indoor mask mandate, its transit agency announced it would drop its mandate in accordance with TSA guidelines.

She was called the IT girl of women's golf in the Great Gatsby era. Miriam Burns won the 1927 Women's Amateur championship. She retired fromcompetitive golf in 1930 when she was 26, died at 47 and was laid to rest in an unmarked Kansas city grave. That all changes on May 30th when a headstone will be placed on her grave during a memorial service that will include golf great Tom Watson and family members of Burns only grandson

Cities are trying to help residents during extreme weather events. In New Orleans, churches and community centers have come together to create "community lighthouses" that will help after hurricanes.

Mayor Karen Weaver was elected in November after vowing to address the problem, which began in 2014. Thursday, the head of the EPA's regional office resigned.

"I can't forgive this," St. Louis native Andy Cohen says on his Bravo show, noting that St. Louis recently topped The Wall Street Journal's list of America's top sports cities.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with London Mayor Sadiq Khan about President Trump's U.K. visit and the Khan's decision to allow a giant baby blimp of Trump to be flown over the city on Friday.

Philadelphia's City Council on Thursday will vote on a 1.5 cents-per-ounce tax on sugary beverages, as well as on diet sodas. Big Soda is spending big bucks on ads to sway public opinion against it.

Nearly 40 million Americans live miles away from fresh, healthy food, and participants in the "Grocery Walk" wanted to show how difficult it can be to get basic items in these often low-income areas.