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Updated September 3, 2020: The U.S. Postal Service plans to reopen the Mt. Vernon Branch September 10.The Mt. Vernon branch of the U.S. Postal Service…

With sustained winds of 185 mph, Dorian is hitting the Bahamas as "the strongest hurricane in modern records" to hit the archipelago, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Retiring Justice Kennedy was often the swing vote on affirmative action cases. Steve Inskeep talks to legal scholar Dana Thompson Dorsey about how a conservative judge would affect affirmative action.

Like voters in Colorado, Utah and Michigan last year, Missouri's voters decided to alter the redistricting process. But lawmakers argue it could create bizarre districts that are hard to represent.

The Democratic presidential field grew this weekend with the entry of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. Many more candidates appear to be finalizing their campaign plans.

Claire McCarthy's new film Ophelia takes the Bard's advice to "hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," and finds a fresh angle on the story Shakespeare called Hamlet.

Thousands of people were in downtown Dayton Sunday for comedian Dave Chappelle's Gem City Shine benefit show. Chappelle and the city of Dayton organized...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Defense Secretary Mark Esper at the Pentagon about the latest messaging from the Trump administration surrounding the U.S. killing of an Iranian general.

A Supreme Court case in March will test the new five-member conservative majority. If justices strike federal abortion protections, look for a state-by-state quilt of abortion "deserts" and "havens."

Veteran Cleveland radio and television personality Mike Olszewski found out what an impression the hosts of Cleveland children’s television shows made, during a conversation he had with a man who grew up in Northeast Ohio. Olszewski asked the man if he could remember the name of his eighth grade principal. The man couldn’t recall it, but he knew the answer to the next question: Who is Barnaby's butterfly? “Oh, that was Cicero,” the man quickly replied, Olszewski said.