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A high court in Germany says a city suffering from excessive air pollution can ban older diesel vehicles from its streets, if officials cannot find other ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions to E.U.-mandated levels.

KTBG in Kansas City, Mo. hosts hometown rock band and NPR Slingshot pick Hembree for a studio session.

The bill would give prosecutors and victims more power to hold websites accountable for sex trafficking on their platforms. Parts of the bill have riled some tech companies and digital rights groups.

Diesel-powered cars are bigger in Europe and the rest of the world than in the United States, but why? A big part of it is the failure of U.S. carmakers to make a reliable diesel car in the 1970s, while another part of it is that diesel engines are nosier and pollute more.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brianne Solomon, a teacher on strike in West Virginia. Solomon talks about the demands being made by strikers, and why she thinks remedies offered by the state aren't acceptable.

After Atlanta-based Delta eliminated a discount program for NRA members, a Georgia official threatens to fight its tax break. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Georgia Public Broadcasting's Stephen Fowler.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to reporter Alex Harris of the Miami Herald about a pair of hoax tweets that affected her reporting on the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Brands are praised for their bold choices when they chose a woman in hijab or transgender person to represent them. But is it real diversity if they don't want the opinions that inevitably follow?

In a bid that appears designed to scuttle a deal planned by rivals, Comcast has offered $31 billion for Sky, Europe's largest broadcaster. If the Comcast bid is successful it will destroy Rupert Murdoch's plan to turn many of his assets over to Disney at a premium price.

Conventional wisdom holds that fertility rates go down in response to an economic downturn. But a new study found that conception rates begin to drop before a recession actually begins.