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A brain organoid grown with Neanderthal DNA reveals how evolution shaped the brains of modern humans and adds to evidence that brain differences helped us survive while our human cousins went extinct.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about the administration's next step in immigration policy. Biden calls the Trump-era program for asylum-seekers "inhumane."

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview "We don't want to isolate ourselves from global life, but we have to be ready for that. If you want peace then prepare for war,"

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Burlington shut down online sales in March right before coronavirus lockdowns. But it's among the discount retailers that have endured the pandemic surprisingly well, even opening new stores.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project collected the narratives of former slaves in the United States. Clint Smith of The Atlantic speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about these stories.

For many families, this is one of the biggest financial decisions they'll ever make. A new book helps navigate the often confusing and opaque financial aid system.

The nonprofit Sea Turtle, Inc. says it has brought in nearly 4,500 sea turtles and counting since Sunday. Still without power, it's heating its tanks with a commercial generator donated by SpaceX.

Perseverance landed safely on the red planet on Thursday, immediately getting to work with a first photo of the rover's "forever home."

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday of complications from lung cancer, was a force to be reckoned with in conservative politics and to be loathed by political opponents.