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With Democrats in control of Capitol Hill, blacks in the House wield unprecedented power. Black lawmakers with long seniority will take over key committees in the 110th Congress.

The country's rural population is shrinking. Governments and community activists are working to reimagine rural life in places like Kansas, but the drop-off continues.

Sales of elderberries exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fruit is often used as a nutritional supplement. Now, there's a debate among growers over expanding the crop's market even more.

Three years since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the civil unrest that followed, several Black entrepreneurs are revitalizing a historic retail building that was nearly lost to arson.

Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, it lays bare the entangled issues confronting us as we attempt conservation efforts while facing a sweeping ecological crisis.

In Quan Barry's charming novel, a team's luck changes when its members pledge themselves to the forces of eternal darkness by signing a spiral notebook with Emilio Estevez's face on it.

New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl astonishes with her essays, a woven tapestry that makes one of all the world's beings that strive to live — and, in one way or another, face mortality.

Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the history of the death penalty in the U.S.

Book stalls along the Seine River have been a beloved Paris tradition for centuries. A plan to remove them before next summer's Olympic Games has not been well received.

The Obama administration set a self-imposed deadline of the end of November to have the major kinks worked out in HealthCare.gov, the website at the center of implementation for the Affordable Care Act. In the hours before its deadline, the site was taken offline for repairs. But the White House says the site is in much better shape than it was two months ago, when it launched and promptly failed to work for most users.