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NPR's Michel Martin discusses the Virginia redistricting vote with Kyle Kondik of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

Macaques living near the Rock of Gibraltar eat a lot of tourists' food. A new study suggests the monkeys have learned to eat dirt to settle their stomachs.

President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve went before a Senate committee today — but Kevin Warsh's confirmation could be held up by forces that are outside his control.

Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.

As small attack drones become central to warfare, the Pentagon is making a major push to jumpstart manufacturing.

The 65-year-old Cook will turn over CEO duties to Apple's head of hardware products, John Ternus, in September. Cook will remain with the company as executive chairman.

Counting seems simple enough, but when you're counting people other questions arise.

I stand for a world where we do not have to build up a callous just to survive the day. I play these records to soften the edges, to bridge the gap between our history and our healing, and to remind us that we do not have to be hard to be whole.

1: TOM BLANTON is the editor of the book "White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Computer Messages The Reagan/Bush White House tried to Destroy." It is published by New Press. Blanton is the executive editor of the National Security Archive, a freedom of information advocacy group.REV 1: MILO MILES reviews Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Complete Recorded Works 1938-1944 by Document Records. also Mahali Jackson's Apollo recordings.INT 2:WALTER TURNBULL is the founder and of the Boys Choir of Harlem. He has written about his work in "Lift Every Voice" by Hyperion.

Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state.

Today is Empanada Day!

ISAAC HAYES is a renowned soul musician, who rose to the top of the charts in the 1970's on the Stax label, a soul record label. He released his first solo album, "Presenting Isaac Hayes," in 1968. His next album, "Hot Buttered Soul," became a gold record in the 1970's. His 1972 soundtrack to the movie "Shaft," went platinum and won an Oscar for "Theme From Shaft." HAYES is also an actor, who has held roles in the movies "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," and "Posse." He is in the new Nicholas Cage movie, "It Could Happen to You," in which he plays a news photographer who puts Nicholas Cage into the media spotlight when he wins the lottery.