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New titles include Dead and Alive from Smith, The Uncool by Crowe and Wreck by Catherine Newman. Plus, fresh fiction from Susan Straight and Mark Z. Danielewski and a biography of Jesse Jackson.

America's immigration crackdown might have serious financial consequences for a range of countries.

President Trump addresses troops in Japan, SNAP benefits will run out for millions of Americans Nov 1., Hurricane Melissa barrels toward Jamaica as Category 5 storm.

Code Switch explores the racial history of two seemingly opposing movements that inform today's declining birthrates.

Farmers are serenading cows with smooth jazz. Studies on whether it boosts milk production are in-cow-clusive, but herds seem udderly delighted by the groovy tunes.

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.

A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely halted thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

The designation would have, as one domestic terrorism expert told NPR, a "cascading effect across civil society, including social media organizations, civic organizations and everything in between."