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Normal Mayor Chris Koos said the hefty margins of victory for moderates in school board and town council races and the Unit 5 referendum show the electorate rejects the negativity of recent years from the far right. Koos also ties McLean County results to state and national trends.

"We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America" centers around two families whose children were taken away and adopted by a couple who abused and eventually murdered them.

Clint Smith writes about the everyday joy, anxiety and exhaustion of parenthood with young children. He also writes about the legacy of slavery and racism and how that history shaped the lives of his ancestors and continues into the lives of his children.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nashville Metro Councilmember at Large Zulfat Suara, who plans to vote to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones to Tennessee's House after his expulsion over a gun control protest.

The U.S. government is investigating a leak of classified documents that appear to give a snapshot of the intelligence community's understanding of the world in late February and early March.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, a Democrat, about her weeks-long filibuster over a bill she says is "legislating hate."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state board of pardons to review the case of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted Friday of killing Garrett Foster during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest.

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.

Mimi Sheraton, who chronicled New York's culinary scene, has died at 97. She is being remembered as the New York Times' first female restaurant critic, who enjoyed great food from little-known spots.

José Rubén Zamora is a journalist and publisher of El Periódico, a newspaper investigating corruption in the country.