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President Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. They will remain home for 14 days, raising questions about the president's job functions and implications for the campaign.

Every family has that story it tells a million times. For NPR's student Podcast Challenge winner Miriam Colvin, that story is of a family friend boxing against an unknown up-and-comer: Cassius Clay.

Bilateral ties are at a low and while Washington and Beijing agreed on climate cooperation, details are unclear. Competition with China is key to the Biden administration's response to climate change.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas about reports that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Instead of running a coronavirus test on every specimen, a lab combines multiple samples. If the batch is negative, then everyone is in the clear. A positive leads to a second round of testing.

The Barbers Hill Independent School District forbids male students from wearing their hair long. Two Black students were suspended when they refused to cut their dreadlocks.

Prime Minister Omar Razzaz tells NPR Jordan is determined to protect the most vulnerable and "went for a very different model ... based on social solidarity." There have been just 11 COVID-19 deaths.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Gregory Nokes, author of a biography of California's first governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, about Burnett's life and racist legacy.

The concerns range from condescending attitudes toward people of color to inequities of pay between international and local workers. The aid group's leaders have pledged to address the issues.

A historic drop in rates has millions of homeowners refinancing to save money. It's helping home sales, but it's not helping the broader economy as much as it would in a normal recession.