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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jonathan Loeb, a senior crisis adviser and the lead author of Amnesty International's new report on the persecution of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.

Saudi officials initially claimed that the journalist, who had been missing since Oct. 2, left their consulate in Istanbul alive.

A famous American, Harry Selfridge, opened what is now a well-known retail store, Selfridges, in London in 1909.One of his biographers is a professor…

The prime minister is facing accusations that he and his advisers tried to intervene inappropriately in a criminal prosecution of a powerful firm hailing from Trudeau's home city of Montréal.

In the NBA, the Knicks topped the short-handed Timberwolves, 96-88, and the Philadelphia 76ers hung on late to beat the Toronto Raptors, 114-109.

MLB:The Chicago Cubs have earned themselves a return trip to Cleveland by extending the World Series to a sixth game. Aroldis Chapman finished what Jon…

The agency that oversees the U.S. intelligence community has released an unusual public statement ruling out the theory that the coronavirus was manmade.

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN)'s book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun

Novelist and military historian Caleb Carr died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, N.Y. He was 68.

Will GTA6 actually come out this year? Is a new Nintendo console coming? Huge games are creeping on the horizon, including a high-stakes Assassin's Creed title and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.