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  • In video posted to social media of a shopping mall fight, an officer tackles the Black youth who's involved and handcuffs him with the assistance of another officer as the white participant looks on.
  • Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together and to write an original poem about the news.
  • Between trysts with various women and men, the British poet Lord Byron maintained a lifelong, spirited correspondence with a clergyman named Francis Hodgson. Now, a collection of their revealing letters is up for auction at Sotheby's.
  • In Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi's new documentary, 12 Iraqi women gather in Syria with a goal: They intend to learn photography, decide what stories to tell, then return to Iraq and tell those stories.
  • Sally Singer, the fashion news and features editor of Vogue, says that she's seeing more "humble fabrics" on the runway this year, including linen, T-shirt jersey and, yes, even cheesecloth.
  • Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela had a strange path to success. They started as a failed heavy metal band in Mexico, before moving to Ireland and changing to flamenco music.
  • The Heartland Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved construction of a $23.4 million agricultural complex.
  • A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  • For decades, basketball has been an all-consuming passion on Native American reservations. But few native players get to play college ball, and none has ever played in the NBA. As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, the sponsors of a new tournament -- the Native American Basketball Invitational -- hope to change that. See pictures from the tournament.
  • In 1911, a deadly fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing about 150 workers. Many of those who died were poor, immigrant women. A new book details the blaze, and the sweeping set of workplace labor reforms that followed. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to David Von Drehle about his new book, Triangle: the Fire that Changed America. Hear an extended interview with Von Drehle.
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