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President Trump's decision to bar visitors from Europe has been followed by new restrictions in other nations. Here's a survey of which doors are being closed to travelers and where.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson about extending distance learning for school students and bridging the digital divide.

Lauren Manning was one of the few employees of her firm to survive the attacks on the World Trade Center, but suffered massive burn injuries. She credits her will to survive to the memory of her colleagues. "I took absolute personal responsibility that they wouldn't get another one," she says.

What makes a great beach read? The producer of our book series, Ellen Silva, thinks it's a book set where you're vacationing. She has picked four spots — Venice Beach, Calif.; Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts; and South Beach in Florida — with great surf and even better books.

In the Heights is Lin-Manuel Miranda's pre-Hamilton Broadway musical directed by Jon Chu for the big screen. The story celebrates not a founding father, but a New York neighborhood.

Fifty years ago, rapid eye movements during sleep were linked to dreaming, and with that discovery, sleep research was transformed. NPR's Joe Palca, a former sleep researcher himself, takes a look at what scientists have learned since.

Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater talks about overseeing the election for the New Orleans mayor's office. Incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt Gov. Mitch Landrieu -- son of the city's last white mayor -- are in a run-off race after Saturday's preliminary election.

In the 1978 children's classic, it rains soup, it snows mashed potatoes, and hotdogs blow in from the northeast. Judi and Ron Barrett look back on their delectable tale of the town of Chewandswallow.

After the only abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala., shut down, a next-door organization has been threading a legal needle to give reproductive health care to those coming from hundreds of miles away.

In the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria, several survivors stayed alive by chance when their collapsed walls provided protection.