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Former President Donald Trump made inflammatory remarks about Vice President Harris at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday. He questioned her biracial background.

Russell played a Soviet spy in The Americans. She stars as a foreign service officer who becomes the U.S. ambassador in London in the Netflix series The Diplomat. Originally broadcast April 17, 2023.

When it comes to the health benefits of cold water dips, the hype is ahead of the science. NPR talked to researchers about what's true, what's not, and the latest on how to get the most out of it.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law last year requiring public schools to provide period products "to all menstruating students" in grades 4-12. Some Republicans are now criticizing him for it.

Two sisters found they had different recollections of a traumatic childhood experience and learned that human memory is a lot less reliable than we tend to think.

In recent months, we ran a series of programs on criminal justice reform. Earlier programs featured the election of various law enforcement officials in the bay area politics and the mood of the electorate, and implications of the election for criminal justice reform statewide.Tonight, in particular, we look at some of the fundamentals of criminal prosecution: interrogation and the confession. YLR Hosts Jeff Hayden and Dean Johnson are joined by San Francisco Criminal Defense Attorney David Bigeleisen and Dr. RICHARD LEO, the Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Law, an expert on police interrogation and false confessions.As this is an encore broadcast, we are not taking telephone calls tonight.

A California law allows a terminally ill person to end their life, but some people with disabilities say they're at risk of being coerced into seeking the medications needed for assisted suicide.

Maryland is poised to become the first state on the East Coast to enact safety protections for people working in the heat. It could be a model for a federal standard.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with soccer podcaster and writer Musa Okwonga about the remarkable season Bayer Leverkusen is having in the German soccer league.

As campus protests against Israel's war spread to colleges across the U.S., NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with University of Texas at Austin students, on both sides, about their concerns and demands.

Cruise hired a law firm to investigate the startup's interactions with regulators after a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian on Oct. 2. Multiple government agencies are now examining the crash.

Heat pumps are efficient and reduce emissions, but they have a publicity problem. Two California-based musicians are on a mission to show how cool heat pumps are by creating smooth jam.