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Don Gonyea asks Jerald Cooper about midcentury modern design and Black culture.

A commission on American prisons offers a report to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Among the group's findings: Violence is an enormous problem, and health care is a disaster. The panel recommends an end to institutional secrecy that has permitted prisons to evade oversight for decades.

The Boston-based composer is remembered, 100 years after his birth, for a string of three-minute pops-concert classics such as "Sleigh Ride," "The Typewriter" and "The Syncopated Clock."

Russia's war on Ukraine and the resulting oil price spike have forced the Biden White House to consider all kinds of measures for fossil fuel that it once would have shunned.

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that ratings for President Biden's handling of the Ukraine crisis has declined. Also, election primaries begin in Indiana and Ohio this week.

People who support and oppose abortion rights say a lot is still unknown at this point. But Ohio has two companion bills under consideration that would ban abortion in Ohio if and when the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

Iran is among the countries hard hit hit by the coronavirus pandemic. As Iranians head back to work after their New Year's holiday, fears are growing that the rate of infection could surge.

Lawmakers are looking into how the big online platforms are displacing mainstream media and what that means for democracy.

Artist Antonio Alcala gets the stamp of approval for his new USPS postage stamp.

The Trump administration held secret meetings to discuss the overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Ernesto Londoño of The New York Times.