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The White House announced support Tuesday for eliminating sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine, which experts say unfairly target Black and Hispanic communities.

Spain has pardoned nine leaders in the Catalan independence movement, who were convicted of sedition in 2019. Catalonia's 2017 failed bid for independence was modern Spain's greatest political crisis.

As the Delta variant accelerates its spread in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci calls the dangerous mutant the "greatest threat" to the nation's battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York police are teaming up with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents to combat illegal guns, which may be driving gun violence. But hard-hit communities want better policing.

Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, with the help of friends, set up a nylon line across a massive gap in Yosemite National Park. They walked 2,800 feet across the line, which hung 1,600 feet above ground.

That this music proudly defies classification is only natural — it's a core part of Smith's message.

Before Nassib became the first openly gay active NFL player, others paved the way — and paid a steep cost.

A new study finds that high quality early childhood education leads to actual changes in the brain, but those changes don’t actually show up until middle…

President Biden wants to eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine that led to the incarceration of far more Black and Hispanic Americans. Critics are skeptical of the reform.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand about Defense Secretary Austin's support for changes that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders.