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Operations against the Rohingya look like a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the U.N. human rights chief says. But Myanmar's civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, denies the allegations.

The African-American director's documentary tells the personal tale of his brother's killing by a white man. Michel Martin talks to Ford, the first openly transgender director nominated for an Oscar.

The end of this latest Supreme Court term leaves us with questions: Is it Justice Kennedy's court or Justice Roberts'? Does pragmatism triumph over ideological purity?

The winner could write a song about how to live a good life: She's a people-loving, honest-to-a-fault ER nurse.

Renee Montagne talks with U.S. Army General John Campbell, about how Afghan forces are faring against the Taliban now that they are fighting combat missions largely on their own.

An expensive manhunt and long investigation ends with a finding of an elaborately staged suicide and accusations of embezzlement, shocking Lt. Charles Gliniewicz's Fox Lake neighbors.

Yes and no. They definitely want a miracle to bring clean, cheap power to the powerless — only a lot sooner.

The prosecution rested its case yesterday in the trial of former Penn State University assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky. He is charged with more than 50 counts of child sexual abuse. Host Michel Martin discusses the trial and what it reveals about the school's football culture with David Epstein of Sports Illustrated.

Questions are swirling around the death of a 21-year-old Arkansas man who died in police custody in July. An autopsy report lists Chavis Carter's death as a suicide. But his family is asking how he could have shot himself in the head while handcuffed in a police car. Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks with Associated Press reporter Jeannie Nuss.

In the last of a three-part series, All Things Considered talks with several North Carolinians who are living in poverty, but aspire to the middle class. Hard work is key to a better life, they say — but it's not easy to keep moving up the ladder.