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Lead was found in Flint's water supply in 2014. Renee Montagne talks to Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan about lead's long history.

After last month's shooting of Stephon Clark, his neighbors are renewing calls to provide investment and opportunity to their Sacramento, Calif., community.

In the 1980s and 1990s, asthma rates in U.S. kids reached epidemic proportions. Though studies indicate the rates are leveling off, rates for African American and Hispanic children and inner-city populations aren't declining. New research suggests poverty, stress and poor mental health may be fueling the problem. Madge Kaplan of member station WGBH reports.

Milk served in the Navy in the 1950s, but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation. He became the first openly gay elected official in California before his death in 1978.

The government of Italy has imposed a lockdown on its northern region, including the cities of Milan and Venice. More than 5,800 people have tested positive for COVID-19, and 233 have died.

In Latino communities across the U.S., bright orange marigolds have become an important flower this time of year, because of the special role they play in Day of the Dead celebrations.

Beijing repurposed some of the sites used in the 2008 Summer Games. The National Speed Skating Oval is the city's only new ice-sport venue built for the Winter Games.

The curtain will go up Thursday on most of the Broadway shows that have been closed for 19 days by a stagehands strike. Stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night on the fight, which has kept more than two dozen shows in the dark.

Israel's bombing campaign has displaced more than 600,000 Lebanese -- a humanitarian disaster, says the United Nations. Aid agencies are concerned about getting help to people who can't evacuate from dangerous areas.

American photographer and filmmaker William Klein isn't well known in his native country, in part because he's spent the last half-century in France. But this spring, Americans can acquaint themselves with Klein's work in a flurry of events -- including a new book, two New York City gallery shows, a film retrospective and the re-release of Klein's classic 1974 documentary, Muhammad Ali, the Greatest. David D'Arcy reports.