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Jamaal Allan is a high school teacher in Des Moines, Iowa. People make assumptions based on his name alone, and that's taken him on a lifelong odyssey of racial encounters.

An unpredictable and exciting college football season is coming to a close. This weekend's first-round slate is set up for two tight games and two blowouts — but in the playoffs, anything goes.

Nearly three years to the day after Floyd’s, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison visited South Florida to talk about his book 'Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence'. He spoke to WLRN about the troubling history of policing in America and ways to implement reforms in the criminal justice system.

The library says that as of Jan. 1, it will only acquire tweets "on a very selective basis." By 2013, the archive had already amassed more than 170 billion tweets.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund announced it has acquired a 50% interest in Neil Young's catalogue of 1,180 songs. Hipgnosis also has made deals with producer Jimmy Iovine and musician Lindsey Buckingham.

Pepsi will acquire the upstart prebiotic soda brand Poppi for nearly $2 billion. It may be a sign of the growing interest in the functional beverage market.

At Alito’s home, an upside-down American flag was waving in the days after the Jan. 6 riot. It was widely used as a symbol of the effort to keep Trump in office even after he lost the 2020 election.

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New York Times journalist Alan Feuer says some members of Trump's inner circle have close ties to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, whose leaders have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

Tetsu Nakamura, a native of Fukuoka, spent years working to improve living conditions in rural areas of Afghanistan. He was gunned down Wednesday along with five associates.

Susan talks to NPR's Joe Palca about the year's top science stories. (6:30).

The suspect has been charged with planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters.

Spies imitating art: Years after Judi Dench played James Bond's boss, Britain's MI6 spy agency is getting its first female chief.

The former president will be traveling the country, focused on the issues that his campaign believe matter most to voters: the economy, crime, national security and immigration.

Facing prison time and personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were wiped away by a sweeping order by President Donald Trump.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the latest on the investigation and action by Congress.

NPR's Alina Selyukh speaks with Andrew Callaghan about his new HBO film "This Place Rules," a personal look at the conspiracies and events leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Kimberly Wehle, a law professor and author of "How to Read the Constitution and Why," about the key takeaways from the seventh House Jan. 6 committee hearing.