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The residents of a public housing complex in East Chicago, Ind., are now forced to move because of dangerously high lead levels in the area's soil. A lead smelting company used to lie on the site.

Pastor Mark Burns apologized for the tweet, which mocked Hillary Clinton with a cartoon that read, in part, "I ain't no ways tired of pandering to African Americans."

This year, many fields are bone dry — and that has many farmers in the region thinking about how to manage their land, their animals and the water that isthere.

How much bang for their buck do citizens actually get out of their nation's total wealth?

Clinton's vice presidential pick received more than $160,000 in gifts while governor of Virginia. He disclosed it all, as required by state law, but it could be a problem in this year of populists.

"We want the government out of your pocketbook and out of your bedroom, and the polling shows that a majority of Americans think that," vice presidential nominee Bill Weld said in a CNN town hall.

Millions of children in Yemen are being killed, injured or traumatized. A mom and activist outlines how the world can help them.

Suppose there were a new kind of gun that might reduce accidental shootings. Such a smart gun exists, but you can't buy one in the U.S. There is a lot of opposition to smart guns.

Western movies once ruled Hollywood the way comic book movies seem to now. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Brooks Hefner of James Madison University about how Westerns faded from popularity, and whether the same thing will happen to superhero movies.

Suppose there were a new kind of gun that might reduce accidental shootings. Such a smart gun exists, but you can't buy one in the U.S. There is a lot of opposition to smart guns.