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The challenges facing Africa are real, but depending on who you talk to, the solution is either to risk it all for a better life in Europe or stay on the continent and fight for a better future there.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their nature reports! Depending on the season, reports may cover wildflowers, wildlife, weather, and other wonders.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their nature reports! Depending on the season, reports may cover wildflowers, wildlife, weather, and other wonders.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Isaiah McKinnon, Cheryl Dorsey and Vincent Montague, three police officers of different generations, about what changes they envision for the law enforcement.

Israel's military resumed combat operations in the Palestinian enclave after a seven-day cease-fire broke down. During the pause, Hamas freed some 100 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinians.

Virginia voters are deciding whether to keep divided government at the state level. At stake is the chance to dramatically reshape abortion policy.

Historically, Colorado set a very high standard for how it prosecutes hate crimes. A new provision in Colorado's hate crime statute is aiming to change that.

An Idaho judge sentenced Bryan Kohberger to four consecutive terms of life in prison for the 2022 stabbing murders, weeks after Kohberger agreed to a plea deal that rules out the death penalty.

As the situation in Gaza becomes more and more dire, with reports of people dying from starvation, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Israel's Permanent Representative to the U.N. Danny Danon.

Along with the war surgery team, six trucks ferrying medical supplies and water purification tools were allowed into Gaza, the ICRC said. And a rocket strike in Tel Aviv injures at least three people.

A political update from Erie, Pa., which has been pivotal to, and a bellwether of, presidential election outcomes.

Jurors convicted Routh on five charges, including last year's attempted assassination of Trump as he golfed at his South Florida course. Routh represented himself in court and faces life in prison.

Most doctors get little training in the science of obesity or how to counsel people with the disease. As a result, many patients experience stigma in the exam room.

Carrie Kahn of member station K-P-B-S reports on the escalating drug-related violence in Tijuana, just twenty miles from San Diego, California. Seven Mexican federal law enforcement officials who worked in Tijuana have been murdered this year. Officials suspect the drug cartel run by the three Arellano Felix (ah-ray-YAH-no FAY-lix) brothers was behind the killings. Experts say the murders--along with a general rise in drug violence in Tijuana--are evidence that a power struggle is underway for control of the area's lucrative narcotics trade.

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Last week from Baghdad, Anne Garrels introduced us to Sabah Mohammed, a Sunni who lived in a Baghdad neighborhood that came under frequent attack by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's forces. On Monday, Mohammed was shot to death by Shiite militiamen. One of NPR's Iraqi reporters witnessed the killing.

The victims were illegally searching for gold and had dug deep in a riverbed in northeastern Afghanistan, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.

Officials said the victims suffered burns and three were airlifted to the hospital with serious injuries. Terrorism in not suspected.

Officers who arrived at the house in New York City found multiple people with stab wounds, including three infants ranging from 3 days to 1 month old.

At least 42 people were injured and several homes destroyed from the magnitude 6.0 temblor that struck northeast of the city of Kerman.