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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to Venezuelan journalist Tony Frangie, who heads the newsletter Venezuela Weekly, about what life on the ground has been like over the past year.

The Trump administration is using decades-old laws, meant to prevent discrimination, to threaten school districts and states with cuts to vital federal funding.

If you want to be a better listener, the first step is to stop talking.

The veteran punk rocker John Doe embraced his inner mountain man on Country Club, an album of classic country covers he recorded with The Sadies. The Canadian rockers and the former X frontman joined Terry Gross in the Fresh Air studio for an interview and an intimate performance. (Rebroadcast from April 2009.)

Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn - our liberal and conservative commentators respectively continue examining the themes of this new year of 2021. Including…

Susanna Capelouto of Peachstate Public Radio reports that Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell has proposed a new affirmative action program for his administration that he hopes will have an impact on the private sector. Under the current plan, a business getting a city contract has to share about a third of the contract with a company owned by women or minorities. Under his new plan, to be eligible for a city contract, a company must show that it is already using minority or women sub-contractors. The earlier plan faces a court challenge from a conservative legal group and the mayor expects them to challenge the new plan, too. Mayor Campbell has said he will do anything in his power to preserve affirmative action in Atlanta.

Two teams of scientists, working more than 230 miles apart, have discovered the first new monkey species in Africa in 20 years. The highland mangabey is a brown, furry creature with a distinctive cry. Fewer than 1,000 are believed to exist.

On Dec. 1, the court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Mississippi case tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional.

Democrats' avowed purpose was to get the Supreme Court to write a code of conduct for itself, or in the absence of that, for Congress to write one. The Republicans' avowed purpose was quite different.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to the Center for Public Interest, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department asking for information about meetings with Russians in 2015.

Alexandra Black, 22, "was a beautiful young woman who had just started her career," her family said. It's not clear how the male lion escaped a holding area during a routine enclosure cleaning.

A hiker reported the mass stranding Saturday. By the time officials could reach the marine mammals, half were dead — and the rest were in such dire condition, they had to be euthanized.

Frustrated protesters have been rallying, demanding that governors reopen state economies. Health officials worry that a premature opening could make economic and health problems even worse.

The former representative from California retired last year. Now he is seeking a seat in a neighboring district currently held by GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing federal corruption charges.

In an 11-page letter, an ex-Vatican diplomat calls for Pope Francis to resign, alleging he knew about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's abuses for years.

Lee's arrest comes just a year after the impeachment of his successor, Park Geun-hye, over corruption allegations of her own. Both former presidents are now in jail.

Delay tactics forced a short-term partial government shutdown after midnight, but Congress and the president approved the two-year deal early Friday morning.

Mitt Romney has been forced into a primary race after losing Saturday's nomination battle at the state's GOP convention. Romney aims to restart his political career by replacing Sen. Orrin Hatch.

The Republican from Oklahoma died Saturday after a fight with prostate cancer. During his time in Congress, Coburn earned a reputation for fighting spending, no matter whom he crossed in the process.

The compromise was negotiated between the administration and Hill leaders and avoids a fiscal fight around the 2020 election. The deal suspends the debt limit for two years, heading off a default.