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Season 4 of Netflix's 'The Crown' dramatizes the royals' awful treatment of Diana Spencer in her marriage with Prince Charles, with Gillian Anderson in a masterful turn as Margaret Thatcher.

The president hopes that what led to victory in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will extend to Minnesota, where his response to COVID-19 and racial justice protests has support in rural areas.

Progressive candidates beat more centrist Democrats in key races Tuesday night in the types of competitive districts the party needs to win to take back the House this fall.

Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition politician, has been banned from running in next year's presidential elections. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to reporter Charles Maynes in Moscow about how effective the Russian opposition can be when it is politically sidelined.

When Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the president of Afghanistan fled. It was so fast, the group didn't seem to have a plan to run the country. Tuesday, they announced an interim government.

The FDA's decision to fully approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has opened the door for a growing number of colleges and universities to mandate the vaccine for their communities this academic year.

The levees of Southern Louisiana remain under the control of local districts, but Hurricane Katrina revived a call to join them under a central authority. Some question whether surrendering local power would prevent a levee failure in the future.

The Biden administration hopes to help fund its agenda by cracking down on tax evasion, but its plan to require more bank information is drawing strong opposition from GOP lawmakers and banks.

Tim Carney, the last American ambassador to Sudan before the United States downgraded relations in 1997, wants to promote a broader view of the country through a new collection of photographs. NPR foreign correspondent Michele Kelemen reviews Carney's book, Sudan: The Land and the People.

An evacuation order remains in place for people within a half-mile of the industrial site in Richmond, but authorities say firefighters have contained the blaze.