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Neighborhoods around a Louisiana chemical plant have the highest cancer risk in the U.S. Residents felt powerless, until the Environmental Protection Agency released data on what they were breathing.

In 1886, sailors on a German barque called Paula tossed a gin bottle containing a message into waters hundreds of miles off the coast of Australia. It's been uncovered on Australia's Wedge Island.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera about the former Russian spy who was found unconscious with a woman at a British shopping center. He had been convicted in Russia for spying for the U.K., and was resettled in England after a spy swap.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, about the resolution of the West Virginia teachers strike. Lee has taught in West Virginia public schools for 22 years.

There's an update in a story about a shipwreck off the coast of Alabama that in January was thought to be a famous slave ship. But now the Alabama Historical Commission says the ship is too new and too large to be the Clotilda, which was the last known vessel to bring enslaved people to the United States in 1860.

President Trump's election in 2016 reshuffled the political map with some white, working-class Democrats backing him. In 2018, a big question is whether this same group has shifted to completely supporting the GOP.

The bid to create a women-led film studio collapses upon the discovery that the company carried more debt than previously known.

Police in Clinton, Mo., responded to a call and were "shot at" from inside a house, police said. It comes seven months after another officer in Clinton was shot and killed during a traffic stop.

The federal lawsuit by the Department of Justice escalates a long-running battle between the Trump administration and state officials on matters from immigration to climate change.

Hundreds of organizations and experts are calling for a public health approach to school-based violence.