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Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar playing Cher's mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. She was 89.

A ballot measure in San Antonio would strip the police union of its collective bargaining rights. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Oji Martin, co-founder of Fix SAPD, which wants voters to approve it.

The governor in Idaho has signed a law to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. Some educators in the state are calling it unnecessary and a potential violation of free speech.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with British author and soccer commentator Musa Okwonga about the mass boycott of social media this weekend to protest online abuse directed at players of color.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Adam Isacson from The Washington Office on Latin America about President Biden's choice to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Single parenting in a pandemic can be crushing as families lose access to work, school and child care.

The world's oil and gas mega-companies are raking it in again. The earnings reflect the remarkable comeback in the global economy, powered by U.S. growth, which is sharply pushing up demand for oil.

Nine-year-old Teagan Ellsworth and her 7-year-old brother Leo collect aluminum cans in their Pittsburgh neighborhood. They crush them and bring them to a scrap metal business for recycling.

In 1986, Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first responder in the Soviet Union when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.

Some folks are taking their first vaccine dose in a two-dose regimen, then deciding to skip the second one altogether. Or maybe to delay it longer than suggested. Is this a bad idea?