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A family court judge in Utah has rescinded his order to remove a baby from lesbian foster parents. He previously said the child would be better off with a heterosexual foster family. But there was considerable backlash from the state's Department of Child and Family Services and elsewhere.

Nine major contemporary artists have created massive, otherworldly installations to mark the reopening of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Police stormed a concert hall in Paris where a number of people were being held hostage. French media described a scene of carnage inside.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with France 24 reporter Cyvil Vanier about the attacks in Paris. He is not far from the concert hall where police are saying more than 100 people were killed.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Councilman Craig Rice and student Julia Angel about public schools in Montgomery County, Md., opening without police officers for the first time in 19 years.

Some residents of the northeast United States are assessing the damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, while officials look ahead to the region's readiness for powerful storms in the future.

Hiring slowed sharply last month, as a surge in coronavirus cases poured cold water on the economic recovery. The slowdown comes as millions of people are about to lose pandemic unemployment benefits.

Amid another season of extreme weather, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropologist Gretchen Bakke about the vulnerability of our infrastructure and how humans adapt to climate change.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Marty McNair, whose son died in 2018 from heat exhaustion, about the risks of playing sports in extreme heat — and what can be done to make student athletes safer.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Ivory Toldson, the NAACP's director of education innovation and research, about why some Black and Latinx parents are hesitant to send their kids back to school.