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Virginia Gov. Mark Warner orders new DNA tests in the case of a man executed in 1992 for a murder he claimed he did not commit. It's the first time a governor has called for a DNA test after someone was put to death.

A federal jury deliberated for just three hours before it found Jan. 6 insurrectionist Guy Reffitt guilty on all five charges brought against him by the U.S. government.

Gas prices have soared just as workers who have been remote for two years return to their commutes. Some are asking for companies to wait until prices come down to bring people back.

On the anniversary of the spa shootings in Atlanta, we look at the long history of Anti-Asian hate, from pandemic-related hate to the fetishization of Asian women.

Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland doesn't take his dramatic series 24 too seriously. He feels it's an honor to play agent Jack Bauer, and thinks the show has done "amazingly well" getting people to talk.

A new noise reduction law in Spain's capital also prohibits amplifiers and requires entertainers to move along every two hours. The city's famed buskers who pass an audition get a free, one-year renewable permit to perform outdoors; those who don't pass muster could face fines for disturbing the peace.

Journalist Paul Salopek is setting out from Ethiopia on a 21,000-mile walking tour that will follow the migration path of the earliest humans. But the story, he says, is about where the world is headed, not where it's been.

Host Scott Simon talks with reporter and author John Thavis about the divisions among cardinals voting at the conclave to select a new pope for the Catholic Church. Thavis is the author of The Vatican Diaries.

The Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate receives a paid summer internship and mentorship from Woodland Pattern, shares their poetry throughout the city and helps guide other young poets through writing workshops.