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On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from the team at Hidden Brain: When Shalom Auslander was seven years old, his grandmother offered him something small that made him rethink his entire religion.

The well funded Federalist Society has unprecedented influence on the US judicial system, including six conservative Supreme Court justices.

This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV — and did something about it.

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Until 2016, Florida law allowed trial judges to impose a death sentence if a majority of the jurors agreed. But now, anything less than 12-0 means an automatic sentence of life without parole.

It might have been all that Democrats hoped for and more, but how might the DNC set up candidates — in both parties — for the last leg before the election?

NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.

The end of the year is nearing — we are well into December. A time for holidays, taking stock of the year. December is also HIV and AIDS awareness month. So today, we’re going to look back a few decades to a time when the Bay Area and the world faced the AIDS epidemic in this documentary.

A very sinister thriller with a dash of science-fiction and full of inscrutabilities, Sarah Langan's novel is as entreating and creepy as it is timely and humane.

The law is intended to restart IVF treatments by shielding patients and providers from civil and criminal charges, but does not change the state Supreme Court's ruling that embryos are children.

As Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claims an unverifiable victory, anti-government protests there grow.

We look at what to expect from the Democratic National Convention — given that the ticket was determined two weeks prior to the event — and what the Republicans have planned as counterprogramming.