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For the first time, Columbus County is hosting partisan primaries for its school board elections. That’s because of a little-known legislative maneuver from state Republicans, and it’s part of a broader pattern. WHQR’s Nikolai Mather and Ben Schachtman break it down.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

For the third time in a row, Novant NHRMC has received a “C” grade from Leapfrog, a nonprofit watchdog for hospital safety. Novant officials say that rating is partially based on old data — and promise a new public-facing website showing “real-time improvement.”

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

The American University of Beirut has long been a haven for cats abandoned in times if war or crisis, but in recent years the feline population has grown dramatically.

A Muslim school near Birmingham, Alabama, was thriving, winning academic awards, increasing enrollment, and looking to expand. Then came the lawn signs.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer asks University of Texas at Austin energy researcher Jorge Pinon about the economic and political implications of Cuba's reliance on Venezuelan oil.

Trump floated the idea during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he wrapped up a state visit to the U.K. and tied it to the need for the U.S. to counter its top rival, China.