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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" soared this weekend, generating a galactic $238 million at the box office. That makes it the biggest North American debut of all time.

On a summer afternoon in 1946, in rural Georgia, a white mob killed four young black people in a hail of gunfire. The brutal killings -- the last mass lynching in America -- led to a national outcry. The FBI investigated, but no one was ever convicted of the murders. On Morning Edition, NPR's Renee Montagne interviews Laura Wexler, author of a book that examines the incident.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is directly sanctioned for the first time for his role in human rights abuses.

The Justice Department is preparing to release the findings of a year-long investigation into the Baltimore Police Department.

This 4th of July holiday weekend brings us the Modern Mandolin Quartet and the Texas Guitar Quartet with four times the fun of a solo mandolin or guitar.…

This week's edition of New Music Friday includes a features-heavy flex from Ed Sheeran, new efforts from Big K.R.I.T and Blood Orange, the return of Imperial Teen, K.Flay and more.

Young Enough, the latest album from Charly Bliss, was born out of growing pains and toxic relationships.

Lillian Kay Petersen, 17, has won the Regeneron Science Talent Search, a top science and math competition for high school seniors. Her winning project: a tool to predict crop harvests.

The Trump administration has carried out its ninth federal execution of the year, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.

Updated: Jan. 8, 2021, 12:18 p.m. The last man missing from the December collapse of the former Killen power plant in Adams County has been found.