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Just half a month after demonstrations ousted the country's longtime leader, the former journalist who led those protests, Nikol Pashinyan, has been elected prime minister.

The federal lawsuit stems from the department's decision to postpone a requirement that recipients of funding study how inclusive their communities are and plan how to overcome historic segregation.

In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive in Africa and transported on a slave ship to America.

Filmmaker siblings Jay and Mark Duplass have been making movies together since they were kids. More recently, Mark says, "We had to dig out space from that beautiful co-dependence."

Stella Nyanzi makes headlines in Uganda for protests about everything from corruption to sanitary pads. She's lost her job, landed in jail — and been brought to court to see if she's out of her mind.

President Trump announced Tuesday his decision to pull the United States out of the multi-country deal to Iran nuclear deal that is meant to restrict Iran's nuclear program.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Washington Post reporter Anna Fifield ahead of Wednesday's meeting between leaders of Japan, China and South Korea happening in Tokyo.

Scientists are closely tracking the eruption at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. But there's still a lot that they don't know about the eruption — most notably, when it's going to be over.

A volcanic eruption on Hawaii's Big Island has destroyed 26 homes so far and nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated. There are 10 active fissures still spewing lava and toxic gas. A new housing division about 12 miles from the volcano is most at risk.

Legislators in Albany are expected to continue working on a bill that seeks to permit state prosecutions of people who have received a presidential pardon under federal law.