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NPR remembers Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion in the decathlon, who died this week at age 86.

Private religious K-12 schools will be expected to close Monday, along with public ones, under a ruling from the U.S Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...

Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland will be able to marry in 2020, six years after the rest of the U.K.

Britain now has the second-worst death rate for COVID-19 in the world. Some critics blame Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his late response and policy missteps.

Nintendo's Animal Crossing changed the idea of gaming from having a final end goal to more of a peaceful, relaxing experience. After 7 years, the newest version is out now and has fans swooning.

More than 70 people fell ill in or around a historic park in New Haven, near the Yale University campus. Police believe the synthetic cannabinoid K2 laced with fentanyl caused the rash of overdoses.

The move, which comes months after the attack in the U.K. on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, follows pressure on the Trump administration from lawmakers in both parties.

Prime Minister Theresa May insists her EU withdrawal agreement will be ratified in Brussels. The public is watching the political turmoil over Brexit with a mixture of horror, anger and resignation.

Kids acting up in school is nothing new. But teaching artists from Cleveland Play House help Cleveland students act out their emotions in the safe space of the classroom. CPH recently received a $2 million federal grant to expand its CARE program, Compassionate Arts Remaking Education, which puts teaching artists into K-8 classrooms in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Despite fierce opposition from Prime Minister Theresa May, there's growing clamor for another referendum in Britain over the terms of the U.K.'s exit from the European Union.