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In high school, Eboo Patel failed to support a friend facing anti-Semitism. Now, the Chicago interfaith youth organizer believes honoring diversity means having the courage to actively speak up for it.

Commentator Chris Rose has prided himself in staying put when New Orleans was hit by past hurricanes. But Katrina convinced him to pack up his family and head out of town. He wishes he'd taken a map.

Russians still wish each other "joy and happiness" to welcome the New Year, but in the sophisticated cocktail bars of Moscow, the drinks are much more complex than vodka.

Our Pool is a joyful, colorful, picture book ode to the neighborhood pool — the lockers, the sunscreen, the cannonballs. Author Lucy Ruth Cummins was inspired by trips to the local pool with her son.

The Kuspuk school district has voted to temporarily close the Gusty Michael school for the 2025/2026 school year, citing a combination of factors.

A raccoon was on the roof and refused to budge. The driver continued another 6 miles to his destination, when the raccoon must have known the ride was over and just climbed down on his own.

"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.

After surviving the bombing of Hiroshima, Ikuo Hirayama went on to turn the devastation into art, creating through his paintings a "requiem" for those who lost their lives in the war. "I believe that flowers can blossom from anguish and inhumanity," he says.

The cremated remains arrived with ceremony in a motorcade with members of Sicknick's family and were carried by colleagues into the Capitol. His urn rests on a pedestal next to a U.S. flag.

The seat currently held by 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein is safely Democratic. Feinstein has not announced if she will retire, but Democratic hopefuls are already entering the race for her seat.