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The White House claims that Chicago has a high crime rate despite its stricter gun laws. This claim doesn't work on two levels.

St. Martin, St. Thomas and Tortla's ports have all been closed indefinitely to cruise liners. What does this mean for passengers as the winter season approaches?

"Good and evil — they mix in the world," says author Soman Chainani. "Both sides claim to be good, both sides claim to be telling the truth." His latest in the series is called Quests for Glory.

Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power...right?

The Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity, a new organization, is working with minority-serving institutions to bring more color into the teaching ranks.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talked to Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose family was once enslaved by Georgetown University. Now, at 63, Short-Colomb has enrolled as a freshman there.

The dollar is down nearly 10 percent since the beginning of the year. That's bad news if you're a tourist traveling to Europe but great news if your U.S. company sells goods overseas.

Federal officials obtained a wiretap of adviser Paul Manafort, according to reports. There's concern he might have been communicating with Russian operatives who wanted to influence the 2016 election.

Also: Toys 'R Us files for bankruptcy protection; Senate Republicans try again to replace Obamacare; and there are 250 new words in Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

A horn- and string-streaked song of love lost, "Easy to Love" doubles as a poignant remembrance of the singer himself.