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Vice President Kamala Harris sits told NPR's Michel Martin, 'I think about my role as vice president of the United States and what that means both in terms of the bully pulpit that I have and the responsibility that comes with that to hopefully inform folks of things I might be aware of, but also to elevate public discourse and hopefully cut through the misinformation.'

VP Kamala Harris says the Supreme Court took rights from the people of America

Vice President Harris tells voters at Essence Fest to elect people to Congress who can address policy that cannot be done through executive action.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

We Asked People What They Know About Taxes. See If You Know The Answers

Results of a new Ipsos poll conducted for NPR suggest Americans may be sending a garbled message when they voice their opinions on taxes.

Marie Lu says it's fitting — given her tendency to write dark, dystopian novels — that she was born in the year 1984.

'Young People Who Do Extraordinary Things' Are The Norm In Marie Lu's YA World

The best-selling young adult author specializes in dystopian fiction. Her latest, Warcross, is set in the not-too-distant future, and draws on Lu's time working in the video game industry.

Samantha and Ariane Buck have struggled with medical debt for years, making it difficult at times to provide for their children. A ballot measure in their state of Arizona to cap interest rates on medical debt passed overwhelmingly, fueled by support from Democrats and Republicans.

Medical debt snares millions of people. States, red and blue are passing laws to help

State lawmakers from both parties are expanding protections for patients burdened by medical debt.

Author Ashley Hope Pérez wrote <em>Out of Darkness,</em> which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.

Ashley Hope Pérez: 'Young people have a right' to stories that help them learn

For years, Out of Darkness appeared on reading lists as a recommendation for ambitious young readers ready to face disquieting aspects of the American experience. It began facing bans in 2021.

Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old'

Smith was 25 in 2000 when she published her critically acclaimed first novel. Now 50, her latest collection of essays, Dead and Alive, reflects on middle age, climate change and generational gaps.

Hospital staff wash the emergency entrance of Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where patients infected with a new virus are being treated, in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday.

Newly Identified Coronavirus Has Killed 17 People, Chinese Health Officials Say

The virus, known as 2019-nCoV, was discovered last month in the central city of Wuhan. It has since spread to other parts of China, and isolated cases are reported in Japan, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Rodney Stotts walks across the roof of the Matthew Henson Earth Conservation Center with one of his hawks. A former drug dealer, he is now a falconer — one of only 30 African-American falconers in the U.S., he says.

In Washington, D.C., A Program In Which Birds And People Lift Each Other Up

For 25 years, the Earth Conservation Corps has been cleaning up the capital's polluted Anacostia River. Volunteers have turned their lives around and now work to help others do the same.

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line

As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62.

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