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A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some — including survivors alive today — say frame of mind was key.

On her last day on the job, Carmen Best, the city's first Black woman police chief, reflected on nationwide demonstrations against police violence and her own department's handling of recent protests.

College campuses are traditionally a big venue for voter registration, but during the pandemic, political mobilization efforts are going virtual.

Andrew Christensen wants the council to mandate a name change. He says boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders, which are already boneless, and shouldn't be called chicken wings.

In 2016, Donald Trump trounced Hillary Clinton in that area of the state which used to be a Democratic stronghold. NPR's Noel King talks to George Rattay of the Fayette County Democratic Party.

Daniel Prude was arrested in March after behaving erratically on a city street. Officers placed a protective hood over his head, and Prude ultimately stopped breathing. He died a week later.

The former press secretary is not about settling scores. Her book is an unabashed homage to the president and a feathering of her nest for a probable run for governor of Arkansas.

Burt Bacharach, one of pop's historic melody makers, is still performing at age 92, as you'll see in this Tiny Desk quarantine concert with lyricist Daniel Tashian.

Seaver became a household name after helping carry the Mets to their "improbable" 1969 World Series Championship.

Public health officials across the U.S. reported dozens of cases in their states associated with people who attended the annual event, which drew hundreds of thousands in August.