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The news this morning is that CIA Director Mike Pompeo is replacing Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre talks about those changes.

Many consumers avoid plastic products containing the chemical BPA, but a large study of rats suggests those water bottles and food cans are safe.

The painting was intended to portray a school rivalry, but critics say the mural was racist.

At the time, New Zealand officials suggested to journalists that the bang of the teenager's gun was a sign falling over or firecrackers going off.

The strike, which shuttered classrooms in the state for more than a week, reached a resolution as Gov. Jim Justice, the union and lawmakers all agreed to a 5 percent salary bump for state employees.

Editor Peter Sokolowski predicts the phrase is here to stay. "It's been used so broadly in the last two to three years ... that people in the future will have to know what it meant."

The Vatican announced that Romero, who was closely associated with liberation theology and was killed by a right-wing death squad, will be canonized along with Pope Paul VI.

Maryland Sen. Bryan Simonaire voted against a state ban on conversion therapy. Later, his daughter, Meagan, a state delegate, voted for the ban, saying her parents urged her to do it as a teenager.

NPR's Susan Stamberg remembers flying back from India in 1968 to a city and country that was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.

NPR confirms that the president's legal team was notified last month that he wasn't a criminal target at the time but is being investigated.