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A good kid just out of high school gets swept up into a plot to rob a bank. Ben Blum tells Linda Wertheimer the true story of his cousin Alex in Ranger Games.

A trophy hunting program aims to protect the national animal, a goat called the markhor. Local social media was full of protests. But there's another side to the story.

When American Airlines hired David Harris in 1964, he became the first African American pilot to fly for a commercial airline. Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cottman's Segregated Skies tells his story.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Ina Fried of Axios about ways Puerto Rico can take advantage of what tech offers in the future. That is, what opportunities there are starting from scratch, using the newest and best ways to generate power and connect people.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Yascha Mounk, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, about how the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by a refugee has activated fault lines and intense debate across Germany.

Hillary Clinton has given hundreds of speeches in her political life, but we're going to dig deep into the first time she entered the national spotlight as a student at Wellesley College.

Violence and humor create a complicated character arc in a Netflix series that serves as a prequel, of sorts, to Ken Kesey's famed novel. Sarah Paulson gives a star turn as Mildred, AKA Nurse Ratched.

Ted Carter hasn’t canoed on the Cuyahoga River since 1978. But you’d never know it to watch him. On a late weekday afternoon on the river, Carter pulls his oar through the water with the steady rhythm of someone who’s done this a million times before. And maybe, in his head, he has. Because he says a boat trip just like this, more than 40 years ago, is what inspired his whole direction in life.

While there are thousands of health-related apps around, one being developed at the University of Washington stands out because it uses a phone's microphone and speaker to make a a medical call.

Jimmie Fails plays a man who continues to visit the old Victorian house he grew up in — even though his family no longer owns it — in this comic fable about the toll of gentrification.