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An appeals court late Monday stepped in to keep in place protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans that have allowed them to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation.

Voters encountered long lines at the polls and scattered problems on Tuesday. Many of the difficulties were in the New York and New Jersey areas where some voters had to cast ballots in the dark or were confused about where to vote. There was also confusion about ID requirements in Pennsylvania, and some confrontations involving poll watchers.

Voters headed to the polls in 10 states on Tuesday. Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center talks to Robert Siegel about the race in Ohio. He shares a picture of who turned out to vote — what issues were on their minds, as well as how conservative and religious they see themselves.

Last year, the Bridges Library system received a grant from Bader Philanthropies to do an oral history project in partnership with StoryCorps.

“Presence and Persistence: Visions of American Blackness” is on display at the Frederick Layton Gallery at MIAD, 273 East Erie Street, until March 12, 2022. The show features four Black artists whose work celebrates the trials, triumphs, and history of Black people in the United States.

People in Taiz are struggling to get food and other necessities amid a civil war that's been going on for nearly a decade.

Across the country Monday, thousands of people held rallies demanding the arrest of George Zimmerman. He is the neighborhood watch volunteer who last month shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in what he says was an act of self-defense.

In Lebanon, funerals took place for a dozen people killed by exploding pagers targeting Hezbollah — but as they buried their dead, more electronic devices blew up, claiming yet more lives.

A kit with condoms, emergency contraception and pregnancy tests is the latest effort by reproductive rights advocates in Wisconsin to educate people on pregnancy prevention as the country awaits a decision on Roe v. Wade.

We’ve been reporting recently on a sharp uptick in violent crime in Milwaukee. Since the beginning of August, more than 25 people have been shot, and…