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They're activist and advocates from Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Lesotho and the U.S. We wanted to know: How do they stay positive in the face of the world's many problems and woes?

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Aug. 29.

Los esfuerzos realizados durante años por algunos residentes locales para retirar o restringir el acceso de los niños a determinados libros para adultos de las bibliotecas públicas del condado de Garfield no han tenido mucho éxito hasta ahora, pero con el reciente nombramiento de dos nuevos administradores de la biblioteca por parte de los comisionados del condado y la inminente jubilación del director ejecutivo del distrito bibliotecario, aún podrían producirse cambios.

An NPR/Ipsos poll found broad support for sweeping government action to combat the coronavirus — including temporary limits on immigration. But support for other White House policies has not changed.

Reality TV is popular around the world. It's also roundly mocked as formulaic and contrived. But can that kind of fragile fantasy meaningfully influence the real world?

March: Book Three, the third installment in the civil rights leader's memoir, won the Coretta Scott King Award for best African-American author. The Caldecott and Newbery medals also were announced.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Zachary Abuza, Southeast Asia expert and National War College professor, about the White House's options following Myanmar's release of American journalist Danny Fenster.

A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds opioid abuse a top issue for rural Americans.

One Sudanese American rapper has been so affected by the brutal conflict in Sudan that he has turned to what he knows best — music — to express his sense of loss and frustration.

Known primarily for his southern-flavored operas, Floyd helped create an American opera vernacular. His 1955 hit Susannah won the New York Music Critics Circle Award and helped launch his career.