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Donald Trump heads to Detroit on Saturday to attend a black church. Pundits suggest Trump's outreach to black voters is really about persuading college-educated white voters that he's open-minded.

President Obama has tapped a rural family physician to be the nation's top doctor. At a Rose Garden ceremony Monday, Obama nominated Alabama doctor Regina Benjamin to be the U.S. surgeon general. Benjamin runs a nonprofit health clinic on the Gulf Coast.

The proposed barrier would cut off 70 percent of the National Butterfly Center's property, putting it in a no man's land along the Rio Grande. More than 200 species have been documented at the center.

According to Turner, Ohio needs a strong voice in D.C. advocating for the state and for its largest military employer, Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with community organizer Shameka Parrish-Wright and Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott about what steps activists want to see taken to end police brutality against Black people.

In 1968, a survey found that African Americans paid more money for lower-quality groceries and struggled for access to fresh food, among other inequalities. Today, those same battles persist.

Logar Province, a flashpoint just south of Kabul, shows the challenges facing U.S. forces as they try to prepare Afghan troops to take over security. In some areas, Afghan troops lead operations. In others, insurgents still pose a serious threat, and the U.S. troops still have the lead role.

Jennifer De Leon's young adult novel centers around Maya, a young Guatemalan girl who, along with her mother, is forced to leave her home and attempt to immigrate to the United States.

Todd Kohlhepp, 45, was arrested Thursday after sheriff's deputies found Kala Brown on his wooded property, "chained like a dog" and living in a metal container.

Commentator Joe Wright has finished three years of medical school. An anatomy class during his first year consisted mainly of dissecting a human cadaver. Last year, he spent much time of his time out of the classroom, working in hospitals and clinics. And in his third year, he returned to the anatomy lab.