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Heather McGhee, author of 2021's The Sum of Us, discusses the economic cost of racism, the importance of community organizing and the "zero-sum lie" that progress for some means loss for others.

Five-time U.S. Olympian Katie Uhlaender says a point-manipulation scheme blocked her bid to compete in Milan Cortina. U.S. sports officials are backing her bid for a special berth at the Winter Games.

A powerful winter storm walloped a huge swath of the U.S., killing at least 25 people. Electricity is out for hundreds of thousands, and freezing rain and snow have coated streets.

Stephen Fowler is NPR's go to reporter for document dumps. He explains how he approaches the day's biggest stories...and its most perplexing datasets.

Tensions continue to escalate in Minnesota as the state continues to be the center of the administration's immigration crackdown. NPR's Jasmine Garsd reports from Minneapolis.

ACA enrollment is down for the first time in 5 years, and people are facing enormous premium hikes. Hopes for Congress to restore funding are fading.

Museveni claims victory in Uganda's contested election as opposition leader Bobi Wine goes into hiding amid chaos, violence and accusations of fraud.

A week after an arson fire at Mississippi's oldest synagogue, Rachel Myers, a leader of the congregation's religious school, talks about how the congregation is doing and about this weekend's services.

A bipartisan group of Senators is in Denmark speaking to officials there as President Trump announces new tariffs and continues to talk about taking over Greenland.

David Hecht reports from Dakar that a Senegalese court today indicted former Chadian ruler Hissein Habre on charges of torture. Habre has been living in Senegal since he was forced from power in 1990. The complaint against Habre was filed by a number of groups, including Chadian victims of human rights abuses and Human Rights Watch. Human rights activists hailed the indictment, the first such action against an ex-head of state since Britain arrested Augusto Pinochet in October 1998.