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More than one third of inmates at California's overcrowded San Quentin prison have tested positive for COVID-19, in what some are calling the state's biggest prison health catastrophe in history.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Michele Harper about her new memoir, The Beauty in Breaking.

The Washington football team is again under pressure to change its name. Former WNBA player Maya Moore helps free a man from prison. And, will basketball seasons take place this year?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Liz Dozier, former high school principal and CEO of Chicago Beyond, about relying less on School Resource Officers and more on counseling programs to improve security.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with China expert Adrian Zenz about his research uncovering evidence of birth prevention and mass female sterilization of Uighur Muslims in China.

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor.

When President Biden and China's president talk, the White House wants to discuss U.S. concern over human rights, trade and Taiwan — plus how they can cooperate including on climate.

NPR's Noel King talks to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the compromise deal reached at the U.N. climate summit that gave a last-minute reprieve to coal-burning economies.

Danny Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years in jail. The announcement of his release came from ex-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, who had gone to Myanmar to negotiate his release.

Three white men charged in the death of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery are due in a Georgia court Thursday. District Attorney Joyette Holmes has been newly assigned to prosecute.