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Nancy Kranzberg takes a look at contemporary African art and artists and the place they have earned locally, nationally and internationally.

A polar bear in a zoo, a hotel balcony overlooking elephants, a tree mural shrouded by haze: They're images from the new book The Anthropocene Illusion, about the way humans are remaking Earth.

Experts answer a round of finance questions from NPR's audience, including how to financially support a friend with Stage 4 cancer and how to stop paying for your parents.

The special session, which will begin Wednesday, will also include trying to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments. Among other changes, any proposed amendment would need a majority of the statewide vote and passage in all eight congressional districts.

Producer Lorne Michaels has said he is looking to shake things up ahead of SNL's 51st season, which starts Oct. 4.

Here's your recap of what happened in the leadership shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week.

When his son began kindergarten this week, educator James Kassaga Arinaitwe flashed back to his own initiation into school, growing up in Uganda under far humbler circumstances.

It's typical that former vice presidents have Secret Service protection for 6 months after leaving office. In Harris' case, she had received an extension of her detail. Trump is ending the extension.

One lucky Star Wars fan won the lightsaber on Sept. 4. Prior to the auction, NPR's Andrew Mambo interviewed Brandon Alinger, the COO of the auction house Propstore, which hosted the sale.

The former jail oversight board leader is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Mensah says they were beaten unconscious by police while visiting the jail in 2023.

With more school districts adopting a four-day school week, educators and parents are grappling with a question that isn't easy to answer: What trade-offs come with a shortened school week, and are those trade-offs worth it? It depends who you ask.

Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.