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James Alex Fields Jr., accused of driving through a crowd of counterprotesters and killing one of them, told the judge that he had been treated for a range of mental health issues.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Konstanty Gebert about Polish protests against the U.S. and Israel over the issue of returning property taken from Jews during the Holocaust.

Federal law enforcement officers and protestors clashed again overnight in Portland, Oregon. The city's mayor says they are endangering demonstrators.

Outgoing Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan once used a colorful phrase to describe the unbridled enthusiasm of stock market investors: "irrational exuberance." Robert Pound, an associate professor of music at Dickinson College, thought the phrase would make a great title for a piece of music.

For her new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mutter traveled to the composer's old stomping ground in Leipzig, Germany, to the site where the concerto had its premiere in 1845.

More than 300,000 passengers have ridden China's railway to Tibet since it opened to traffic two months ago. China sees it as a historic event, but the train's long-term effects on the remote Himalayan region remain to be seen.

Soldiers in Myanmar try to crush dissent by breaking up street gatherings of activists, occupying key Buddhist monasteries and cutting public Internet access, raising concerns of a wider crackdown after at least 10 people were killed this week.

Members of a House committee demanded to know why the Food and Drug Administration let the pharmacy that sold tainted drugs continue shipping them after sending a warning letter about problems in 2006.

The same genes that allow humans to sense sweet and umami flavors may play a key role in a man's reproductive fitness. Researchers found that inactivating these genes in mice can led to sterility of males.

Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the U.N., is on a multi-nation swing through West Africa to see how the global response to the deadly virus is faring.