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Johnson County, Iowa, voted to change its eponym from Richard Mentor Johnson, a lifelong slaveholder, to Lulu Merle Johnson, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Iowa.

Grammy-winning composer Mervyn Warren worked on the music for the new documentary, which drops on Amazon Prime on Friday.

Some of the events at the U.S. Track and Field trials in Oregon have been moved to earlier start times, but exposure to this kind of weather could still be very dangerous.

The Pritzker administration is making too much out of an improvement in the state credit rating, according to a Bloomington State Senator. Bond rating agencies have revised their outlook from negative to stable. The governor is touting that as a sign of good fiscal management. Republican Senator Jason Barickman said it means less than that.

AMC Theaters is the latest stock to have gotten caught in a meme wave. But this time, the company seems to be taking advantage of the ride.

President Biden met with Afghanistan's leaders, President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.

NPR's Ailsa Chang interviews Andrea Jenkins, vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, about Derek Chauvin's sentence in the death of George Floyd. She lives close to where he was killed.

Iván and Gerardo can't be gay in Mexico, and can't be undocumented in the U.S. Filmmaker Heidi Ewing tells this real-life story with documentary footage and a swooning fictionalized drama.

After a rough tourism season last year, Wisconsin Dells is among those destinations seeing record numbers as vaccinated Midwesterners are ready to travel. But with that boom comes new challenges.

The housing gap between Black and white homeowners has been consistent for decades, and so far it continues to widen.