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Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, is in hospice care at his Georgia home

5:09am February 20, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to biographer E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. about Jimmy Carter's influence both in and after the White House. Godbold has written two biographies on Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.

Reckoning with presidential legacies on Presidents' Day

5:27pm February 19, 2023

America venerates its founding fathers on Presidents' Day, even as it reckons with the fact that many of them enslaved people. NPR's Michel Martin talks to historian Kenneth C. Davis.

The Woodson family members at the Woodson reconciliation ceremony in 1998.

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1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals

10:03am February 19, 2023

by Sandhya Dirks

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.

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The USS Albacore is pictured in Groton, Conn., on May 9, 1942.

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An American submarine that went missing in World War II is found off of Japan's coast

5:00am February 19, 2023

by Emma Bowman

The wreckage of the USS Albacore, credited with sinking at least 10 enemy vessels during the war, was identified, the Navy said — almost 80 years after it was presumed lost.

A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here.

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

4:25pm February 17, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial will be shown to the public for the first time.

Un visitante entra en el edificio del Casino de Oficiales de la ESMA el 19 de marzo de 2016. Las ventanas están repletas de imágenes de civiles que fueron torturados y asesinados allí.

'El Juicio' detalla el régimen de terror de la dictadura argentina 1976-'83

12:52pm February 17, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Cuarenta años después de la caída de la dictadura militar argentina que torturó y asesinó a miles de civiles, se muestra una grabación del juicio de los militares responsables por primera vez.

Publicity still portrait of American actors Raquel Welch and Jim Brown in the western drama '100 Rifles' (20th Century Fox), 1969.

Six must-see films with Raquel Welch, from 'Fantastic Voyage' to 'Myra Breckinridge'

10:21pm February 16, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The veteran film, television and stage actress died Wednesday morning at the age of 82, after a brief illness.

Austin Hunt holds a sign with current and former Michigan State University students during a rally at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Wed., Feb. 15, 2023, after a gunman opened fire on the Michigan State University campus Monday night.

Democrats control Michigan for the first time in 40 years. They want gun control

7:09am February 16, 2023

Having been blocked by Republican legislatures on regulation in the past, Michigan Democrats are forging ahead on tighter gun restrictions after the shooting at Michigan State.

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Actress Raquel Welch at the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards January 16, 2005.

Raquel Welch, actress and Hollywood sex symbol, dead at 82

9:16pm February 15, 2023

by Ciera Crawford

Welch is best known for her roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. She is survived by her son and daughter.

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The violent and murky beginnings of Valentine's Day

4:48pm February 14, 2023

A very brief look at the dark and murky beginnings of Valentine's Day.

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