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J. Marion Sims perfected a new surgical procedure by repeatedly operating, without anesthesia, on enslaved women in the 1840s. New York City is moving his Central Park statue to a cemetery.

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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states may execute condemned prisoners with a sequence of three drugs that had been challenged as "cruel and unusual punishment" in a Kentucky case. In a separate case, justices are weighing whether it's constitutional to sentence someone to death for raping a child.

Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.

Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Chilean-born actress Felicia Montealegre, had three children: Jamie, Alexander and Nina. Montealegre died in 1978.…

Memorial Day is coming up and America’s summer movie season is starting to pick up.

Here & Now's Robin Young checks in with Charles Katz, director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University.

Also: Two Chinese astronauts are on a long space mission; full rail service returns today in Hoboken, N.J. after last month's crash; and a panel examines legal abdication by Japan's emperor.

Mandolin player, singer, songwriter Chris Thile is best-known as a founding member of the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and for the quintet,…