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Protesters at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Bristol, England, pull down the statue of an infamous English slave trader and throw it into the city's harbor.

The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music.

The U.S. and NATO were to decide this week on whether to pull their troops out of Afghanistan at the end of April. But that decision was put on hold as the Biden administration reviews its options.

Stanley Martin wants to rethink Rochester police — a radical new plan to abolish the police gradually. Others also talk about "reimagining" police, though they mean the same word very differently.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Vijay Seshadri about his new collection, That Was Now, This Is Then.

Now that President Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, NPR checks in with what that means for life and work at the White House and what is known about living with COVID-19.

National outrage over the police-related death of George Floyd continues into a second week. In San Francisco, some are ignoring city wide curfews in…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is speaking out against accusations that his administration has not been forthcoming about the scope of nursing home deaths related to COVID-19.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David M. Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, about the new U.S.-brokered diplomatic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

While raising her young daughter, Stephanie Land cleaned houses to scrape by. It was back-aching work for low pay. Her memoir inspired the Netflix series, Maid. Originally broadcast Jan. 29, 2019.

The Supreme Court's DACA ruling on Thursday has shielded Young immigrants shielded from deportation, but only temporarily as the Trump administration is still vowing to end the program.

Despite vaccinations, more than 20 states experience COVID-19 surges. Georgia firms pressured to take a stand against new voting law. Jordan's government thwarted a plot to destabilize the country.