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NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Tina Park, executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, about whether sending North Korean athletes to the winter Olympics in South Korea, signals any significant change in relations.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Vanessa Velasco, a Salvadoran woman who will lose her temporary protected status in the U.S. in September 2019, about what the decision means for her and her three children — who are all American citizens.

The Supreme Court has heard arguments in a decades long water war between Georgia and Florida. But it's not clear if any decision will end the legal wrangling.

"Baby Bonds" are back in the news. Two professors presented their idea to do something about widening inequality to an economics conference. They suggest creating an education trust fund for each newborn. The grants — ranging from $500 to $50,000 — would be on a sliding scale tied to household income.

The Fairbanks City Council is looking at limiting the number of marijuana businesses in town through an ordinance that’s modeled on how the city and state…

Poor families are already having an increasingly difficult time finding an affordable place to live thanks to high rent, static incomes and a shortage of housing aid.

A teacher in Kansas wanted to teach his third graders how quickly information can spread, so he sent a tweet explaining his lesson and asking people to retweet. It now has more than 180,000 retweets.

The justices heard a challenge to an Ohio law, which allows the purging of voter registrations because of a failure to vote in two consecutive elections.

Callas, who died in 1977, was known for her ability to merge musical notes with complex feelings. Now Warner Classics has released a box set of her live recordings — including 20 complete operas.

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