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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Allyn Kilsheimer, a renowned structural engineer, about the factors that could have led to the collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Fla.

A November 2020 presentation to residents of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., prepared them for the expensive repairs ahead and warned that "shouting at each other doesn't work!"

Food writer Priya Krishna and her mother, Ritu Krishna, discuss influences on their Indian cooking. They explore assimilation through food and why recipes like dal represent comfort for their family.

Black creators on TikTok say that for years, non-black creators have risen to fame performing dances that Black influencers on the app created.

Carlos Ghosn arrived in Japan as a bold new auto executive. He became a corporate superstar and the CEO of two car companies. Now he's a fugitive. We hear from Carlos Ghosn about his rise and fall.

The Statue of Liberty has a little sister, a 9-foot casting from Bartholdi's original mold. It departed Normandy by boat and arrives in New York City soon for temporary installation on Ellis Island.

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 169 years ago.

U.S. employers added 850,000 jobs in June as the unemployment rate reached 5.9%. Job growth accelerated in the last two months, but many employers say they'd happily hire more workers if they could.

U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson was poised to be a breakout star at the Tokyo Summer Olympics until a positive test for marijuana disqualified her from the 100 meter race.

When California's eviction moratorium ends, the rental market faces a crisis. Renters in arrears could end up homeless, and landlords could end up holding the bag on months of unpaid rent.

With U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, there are growing concerns on Capitol Hill about the fate of thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military.

Palestinians in a Jerusalem neighborhood face the threat of having their homes demolished. The move would be to make room for a biblical park of ancient sites sought by Jewish settlers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg and lawyer Tom Goldstein and Colombia Law School professor Jamal Greene for a wrap up of the Supreme Court's most recent term as it comes to an end.

Chicano social justice activist and feminist writer Elizabeth Martinez died in San Francisco at 95. She was a fixture at marches and rallies and wrote books about the history of Chicanos and Chicanas.

Author Ocean Vuong recommends four books on the immigrant experience — but he wants to de-center America in these stories: "Immigration is a species-wide legacy," he says, and always has been.

Investigators say 22 people are known to have died and 126 are unaccounted for. The 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter is among the dead. Another condo building was evacuated Friday.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with historian Donald Grinde Jr., a member of the Yamassee Nation and University of Buffalo professor, about the racist passage the Declaration of Independence cont.

The court also turned away challenges to longstanding decisions on qualified immunity and defamation, prompting dissents from the court's conservatives.

As Dave Mistich of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, Freedom Industries is demolishing the site responsible for the leak that contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians early in 2014.

Hurricane Elsa is expected to affect Florida early next week. Officials have begun preparations for potential impact as teams work at the condo site looking for those who remain unaccounted for.