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On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, there's no official event to memorialize what happened. Instead, the day displayed the divisions that still define Washington, and the country. -
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Matias Delacroix/APVenezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace". -
Getty ImagesMany Americans say the U.S. is not a moral leader but want it to be, according to an NPR/Ipsos poll. And, the FBI is taking over the investigation into the fatal Minnesota ICE shooting. -
NEONIn the latest movie from Park Chan-wook, the director behind The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave, a paper factory worker loses his job — and resolves to kill his competition for a new one. -
Hundreds of somber demonstrators took to Minneapolis' frozen streets to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Elliot Williams, a former U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, about the Trump administration's narrative around the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent.
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Mattia Ozbot/Getty ImagesHere's how to send your questions and curiosities to the NPR team covering the Winter Olympics in Milan. -
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Universal Pictures; Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for RFK Ripple Of Hope; Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesPlus: What's up with Wicked, Greenland, quarters and Jan. 6? -
Rich MouserOne year later, musicians who lost essential instruments and home studio set-ups in the Los Angeles fires are still picking up the pieces.
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