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The Trump administration has started the policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico while they await their immigration hearings in the U.S. Several groups are challenging the new policy.

Rural school district superintendents are trying to find the best use of limited resources. Taking on the state's unmaintained buildings, they say, will only increase their burden.

Salsa has been popular in Africa for years. Senegal's brand of Afropop, called Mbalax, creates a kind of music that's spreading beyond Senegal's borders. David Hecht reports about the new music trend from Dakar.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Tracie McMillan, whose journalistic memoir — The White Bonus — examines the cash value of institutional racism in the United States.

The documentary is about the making of the Beatles' album of the same name. Its raw footage was the basis of Peter Jackson's eight hour series Get Back. The new release is only 80 minutes long.

The war in Gaza has caused deep divisions in communities around the world. But in the Israeli city of Haifa, some people are working toward dialogue.

The U.S. government and Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president are calling on the military to withdraw support for Maduro's government. But fomenting a coup could bring unexpected consequences.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., about the latest progress to end the partial government shutdown after weeks of a stalemate.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Yascha Mounk, associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, about how the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by a refugee has activated fault lines and intense debate across Germany.

Shortly after he took office, President Trump withdrew the U.S. from negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is moving forward, and the remaining members stand to gain economically.