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The National Park Service is weighing a Texas company's proposal to do seismic oil testing in the Big Cypress National Preserve, but some worry it will open the door for fracking in the Everglades.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Chuck Canterbury, president of the National Fraternal Order of Police, about the deaths five police officers in Dallas, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

Conservative media are reacting to the indictment of President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort by downplaying Manafort's ties to the president.

Artist Molly Crabapple's lavishly illustrated memoir chronicles her youth in New York and her work illustrating the Occupy Wall Street movement, protests in Greece and everyday life in Syria.

Lee's new film, Chiraq, draws on an ancient idea to deal with the present-day crisis of gun violence in Chicago. Natalie Moore of member station WBEZ explains how.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Cory Hughes, an organizer of Thursday night's protest rally in Dallas against recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

Nicolas Maduro has outmaneuvered his opponents amid an economic free fall. New Yorker reporter Jon Lee Anderson explains to NPR's Scott Simon how Maduro has managed to do it.

In The Slap, NBC takes on the touchy issue of corporal punishment. The show begins at a Brooklyn barbecue with a dad hitting another parent's out-of-control 5-year-old.

There's been a chilling development in an ongoing insurgency in northeastern Nigeria. Islamist militants, known as Boko Haram, are utilizing a new type of suicide bomber: young girls.

It's been five years since an earthquake devastated Haiti. Meanwhile, opposition lawmakers are blocking a compromise that would avert the dissolution of Parliament and the president ruling by decree.