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First up, tech training centers in Oakland are empowering their students and the community around them. Then, stories from people making theater inside…

Ten years ago, a judge in Columbus developed a special docket that would direct women forced into sex work toward rehabilitation instead of the criminal justice system. Now it's a nationwide model.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with Tessa Hadley about her new novel, Free Love and pivoting to writing novels in her 40s.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Colgate University professor Peter Balakian about Biden's expected recognition of the Armenian genocide. The U.S. avoided calling the mass killings a century ago genocide.

The final episode of the first season of Marvel's Disney+ series dropped Friday — along with a timely surprise.

Victims of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting have reached a settlement with MGM Resorts. They will share as much as $800 million. Fifty-eight people died and more than 400 were injured in the massacre.

Bob VanSumeren served nearly six years in prison for robbery. But Mike McKenney, his ex-girlfriend's dad, never gave up on him. "Your visits kept me from sinking fully into prison," VanSumeren said.

Showtime's new 10-part series dramatizes the lives of three presidential spouses: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama, played by Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tells NPR's Noel King that Congress should make permanent the expanded child tax credit payments that began arriving this week.

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a profile of Will Smith in GQ, cooking videos from Sohla El-Waylly and The Turnout by Megan Abbott.

Peter Madsen, who was sentenced two years ago for the murder and dismemberment of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, bluffed his way out of prison with a fake bomb strapped to his abdomen.

Over the past decade, U.S. coal production has fallen by half as utilities switched to cheaper natural gas or renewable energy. But this year, demand is up for a different kind of coal.