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In this week's #AskCokie segment, commentator Cokie Roberts answers listener questions about the history of U.S.-Cuba relations.

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, who was one of the people who worked on the Senate health care bill, about the last minute negotiations and the finished product.

Congress returns Monday from the Memorial Day recess without any discernible progress in the Senate on health care legislation — and time is getting short.

We're answering more questions about the Republican plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, including what the proposed changes would mean for healthy young people and for taxes.

Raising the age of adult responsibility for crime is a heated issue in New York, which tries 16-year-olds as adults — and where nine in 10 youth held at Rikers' Island jail are black or Latino.

Celebrating this ancient festival was banned under the Taliban. For refugees and immigrants in America, the holiday and the feasts that accompany it are an important cultural link to Afghanistan.

The Newark Police Department has operated under a federal consent decree since last year. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with the city's director of public safety, Anthony Ambrose.

The four-week February sweeps starting Thursday, Feb. 2, bring more spin-offs and revivals from TV shows and movies. Here's a look at sweeps highlights:

The suspense novels Maureen Corrigan recommends roam from the beaches of Long Island to the coast of Wales, and from the mean streets of Chicago to the alleyways of Berlin.

NPR's Sarah McCammon grew up in a conservative evangelical home in the Midwest. When Prince died and purple filled her newsfeeds, she felt like an outsider watching a ritual she couldn't fully join.