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The Security Council temporarily moves to Kenya to deliberate on possible solutions to the 21-year-long civil war in Sudan. An estimated 2 million people have died since the war began in 1983. The council will also discuss the continuing crisis in the Darfur region. Hear NPR's Jason Beaubien.

A new poll by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press shows that around the world -- and especially in Muslim nations -- there's been a marked negative shift in peoples' opinion of the United States. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, and NPR's Lynn Neary and NPR's Jacki Lyden discuss the poll results with Pew director Andrew Kohut.

A team of international election observers is in the United States in advance of the November vote. The group spent last week examining voting procedures in St. Louis, where four years ago the election was marred by charges that hundreds of registered voters were prevented from casting ballots. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

How marijuana's reclassification could change U.S. drug policy

Hunter Biden trial highlights experience of Americans struggling with addiction

News Wrap: ‘Dangerously cold’ temperatures expected in eastern U.S.

In 1910 the U.S. Forest Service was desperately understaffed. Premieres Feb. 3 on PBS.

Sergei Khrushchev's home movies of his father's plane trip to the U.S.

A U.S. Information Service film about Soviet Premier Khrushchev's 1959 tour of America.

Scott Carpenter was both a NASA astronaut and an aquanaut with the U.S. Navy.