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In a struggle over how gun crimes are handled in D.C., federal prosecutors say they need room to bring charges in federal court — advocates say it's a civil rights issue, driving mass incarceration.

NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander created a community poem from submissions that reflected on increased violence and discrimination against Asian Americans.

"It just is really sad to see what was supposed to be the best years of your life, like, go down the tubes."

They're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.

Some of the NHL's top teams got a head start on the trade deadline by making moves.

The Summer Olympics are scheduled to begin in late July.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has shipped dates, a sweet, dried fruit used to break the fast at Ramadan, to 54 Florida prisons ahead of the holy month.

The rapper died today at White Plains, NY Hospital, after being on life support.

Supporters of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say his medical condition has worsened, as Navalny stages a hunger strike to demand access to his own doctors.

At a recent firearms training session in southern California, a small group of Asian Americans had mixed reactions to acquiring a gun.