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Lori Lightfoot made history on Tuesday when she became the first black woman and the first openly gay person ever elected mayor in Chicago. Her message resonated with voters in many zip codes.

Writer Rhianna Jones is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro.

Mark Bowden's account of the unsolved 1975 case of two girls who went missing near D.C. is a riveting, serpentine story about the dogged pursuit of the truth, regardless of the outcome or the cost.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with former presidential homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco about President Trump's decision to rescind part of an order boosting transparency around drone strikes.

The search for a missing child led to a raid of a rural compound and the grisly discovery of 11 emaciated children. Their relatives were training to attack U.S. personnel, federal authorities say.

Attorney General William Barr got into a "shouting match" with Utah Sen. Mike Lee over Jessie Liu's bid for associate attorney general, sources told NPR. Liu is the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

The demand for coal keeps rising, particularly in Asia, where China remains the world's biggest coal consumer.

The $71 billion deal strengthens Disney's portfolio and gives it even more leverage to compete against other streaming powerhouses.

The booze bust in Rotterdam comes on the eve of Kim Jong Un's meeting with President Trump in Vietnam and is a breach of U.N. sanctions banning the export of luxury goods to the communist country.

Robert Rauschenberg worked on-and-off for 17 years on 190 painted, collaged panels roughly spanning the length of his commute. The monumental artwork is exhibited in its entirety for the first time.