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Leslie Cook is a senior business editor on NPR's Business Desk. In this role, he assigns and edits NPR business reporters and collaborates with show producers and editors on host interviews.

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

United Methodist ministers in Bloomington-Normal say the global church’s decision to double-down on its policy banning same-sex marriage and gay and…

As the economy remains sluggish, some cities express regret at having offered financial incentives to attract new industry. Some companies are shutting down factories that cities and states paid to attract just a few years ago. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

"I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian or am I more American?" Minhaj asks. His weekly political comedy series on Neflix is called Patriot Act. Originally broadcast May 18, 2017.

America 24/7, a photographic collaboration profiling a week in the United States, is the latest project from Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen. The pair also shephered the photography project A Day in the Life of America.

The Team America Rocketry Challenge is a contest organized by the aerospace industry to lure young people -- especially girls -- to a career in space science. Nearly 10,000 students entered this year's challenge. We profile the one all-girl team that made the finals.

The cargo ship MV Torgelow returned to her home port in Mombasa, Kenya, last weekend after being held for 53 days by pirates off the coast of Somalia. This and other similar attacks are preventing relief agencies from delivering food and other supplies by sea to Somalia, according to relief officials.

The space plane provided great views and a few minutes of weightlessness. Virgin Galactic says it hopes to begin regular flights in June.

For the past five years, the Golden State Warriors have traveled to San Quentin, the well-known California maximum security prison, to play a basketball game against select prison inmates.