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Russia will soon have a new president, and it appears it will be Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor. Analyst Masha Lipman of the Moscow Carnegie Center says that despite recent liberal-sounding rhetoric, Medvedev will likely maintain the status quo.

The current race for the Democratic presidential nomination is anything but clear-cut — and trying to calculate the current popular vote or the delegate tallies can be a dizzying mathematical exercise.

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block get tips on how to pronounce the new Russian president's surname from Russian language teacher Lida Oukaderova of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

NPR's corporate board has forced out its chief executive, Ken Stern. He joined NPR in 1999, but was only CEO for a little more than a year.

The Mississippi presidential primary is very different from those in Texas and Ohio, which Democrat Hillary Clinton won. Mississippi has the largest percentage of African-American voters in the country; if voting trends continue, that should benefit her rival, Barack Obama.

Delegates hold the only keys to the Democratic presidential nomination. We have an update on where the pledged delegate count between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stands Wednesday, and where it's likely headed. We also hear about the superdelegates and the two big states — Michigan and Florida — that lost their delegates.

On February 26, conductor Lorin Maazel led the New York Philharmonic in an unprecedented concert in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was the first time a major American orchestra performed in the communist country. The concert was broadcast nationwide.

The centrist political group No Labels is getting on the ballot in individual states, causing consternation among members of the major political parties about the organization's endgame.

Tech companies are in a race to roll out AI chatbots and other tools. As technology gets better at faking reality, there are big questions over how to regulate it.

Some military veterans, known as Task Force Butler, are tracking and infiltrating domestic extremist groups, hoping to trigger prosecutions before the groups can cause more violence toward minorities.