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When Georgetown University announced they were going to try to make reparations to descendants of slaves held by the university more than a century ago, it raised tough questions for the families who stand to receive the reparations. Georgetown is offering preferential admissions to descendants, but one family with two students applying, have another idea.

NIH Director Francis Collins has stopped research at two leading labs for now. But an independent board of experts wants even more oversight to ensure that patient safety is the top priority.

In the developing world, women who want to space pregnancies can't always obtain birth control. A new insertion device for an IUD, post-childbirth, is being tested with promising results.

We asked the students in Marlem Diaz-Brown's class in Miami to tell the story of their "amazing" teacher.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he doesn't yet support Donald Trump as the de facto nominee. He and other Republican leaders meet with Trump on Thursday. Can Republicans unify ahead of November?

In the 1980s, the FBI and NSA dug a tunnel for espionage purposes beneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington. The spy rivalry continues, but how has the game changed since the fall of the Soviet Union?

FBI Director James Comey said the agency did not find clear evidence that Clinton intended to violate the law, but that she and her staff were "extremely careless" in handling sensitive information.

Renee Montagne talks to David Rennie, Washington bureau chief for The Economist, about Theresa May, who is poised to become British prime minister. David Cameron is expected to resign on Wednesday.

The governor has insisted that his personal and government accounts were searched by investigators, but new court documents indicate that a personal account he shared with his wife was never searched.

When Donald Trump unveiled his economic vision this week, he offered a tax deduction on child-care costs as part of his plan to help families. Steve Inskeep talks Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore.