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We discuss the possible deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, a stalled job market, and what the renaming of the Department of Defense might signal.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning during this week's Senate hearing as frustration, confusion, and anger grew among lawmakers and citizens regarding his controversial vaccine policies

President Trump is ramping up threats to send the National Guard into several major cities despite a federal judge ruling that his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal.

The congressional redistricting fights that President Trump sparked in Texas, California and other states have led some advocacy groups to reconsider their strategies against partisan gerrymandering.

In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro is on trial, accused of attempting to overturn the 2022 election. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Gustavo Ribeiro of The Brazilian Report about what's at stake.

At Russ & Daughters, it takes three months to learn how to slice salmon. NPR's Scott Simon visits the 100 year-old appetizing store to try his hand at the fine art and talk about their new cookbook.

In Zambia, we met people who are HIV positive, couldn't get drugs to suppress the virus after U.S. aid cuts and were seeing symptoms. We checked in on them — and the man who's been their champion.

The Harlem Hellfighters, who became legends for their service during World War I, were honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal.

As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.

A report that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised will come out this month will look at the causes of autism. Many worry it will have claims unsupported by science.