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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with actress and singer Teyana Taylor about the new film A Thousand and One, which follows a woman and her son's story for more than a decade.

Only a small portion of U.S. colleges have selective admissions, where race-conscious admissions can make a difference in who gets in. But the impacts of banning affirmative action are far wider.

It's not a lost episode of The Americans — Russians Among Us dives into the very real, decades-long Russian spy campaign in the U.S. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Gordon Corera.

The first Republican primary debate, in Milwaukee on Wednesday, will give many Americans the first chance to hear from the GOP presidential candidates, but the party's frontrunner won't be there.

Consumers kept spending and businesses investing in the first half of the year, leading to healthy growth in the U.S. GDP. But there's still some apprehension about a possible recession. Here's why.

Hollywood actors and writers who qualify for their union health plans get a very good deal compared to other Americans. But not working during the strike threatens their eligibility in the system.

For the first time ever, the UAW launched a strike against all Big 3 automakers at once, starting with three locations in the Midwest.

How did the NBA become home of so much style, and so many hot looks? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Mitchell Jackson about "Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion."

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.