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NPR's Eric Weiner reports from the city of Hue, site of some of the bloodiest action of the war. During the infamous Tet Offensive in 1968, Viet Cong Guerrillas attacked American and South Vietnamese forces at Hue, and took the city. Americans eventually re-captured Hue, but at terrific cost. Today, the city has been largely restored and is considered the cultural heartland of Vietnam.

New Orleans musicians are angry and uncertain about their futures and the future of their hometown. Cyril Neville of the Neville Brothers says he doesn't want to return to New Orleans if it will be rebuilt as "a cross between Disneyland and Las Vegas."

The website anytimeestimate.com determined that Detroit has more independent pizzerias per capita than in 49 other contenders to the pizza throne.

Unemployment in March was 6% for the Bloomington Normal area. The State Department of Employment Security says that's an increase of nearly one and a half…

The store shut down prior to the pandemic and was then saved by Lin-Manuel Miranda and his often-collaborator Thomas Kail.

Biden's plan includes putting an end to illegal gun sales and strengthening funding for anti-violence programs in communities.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, some candidates spent upwards of $200,000 for a seat on the city council, before a city ordinance placed spending caps on local campaigns. The city hopes a court challenge to the ordinance will wind up before the Supreme Court...and will prompt the Court to reverse its 1976 Supreme Court decision that found mandatory spending caps violate candidates' free speech rights. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Barbara Mantel takes a walking tour around New York City with author Jerold Kayden, who has written Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience. In New York City, developers are allowed to make their buildings taller in exchange for creating parks, plazas or gardens for the public to use. Mantel and Kayden take a look at some of places created for public use.

The 14-candidate race will determine who succeeds Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

To China, it's a big deal — even if a handful of countries are protesting China's human rights record.