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Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been convicted of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself and lying to Chicago police about it. His lawyer is pledging to appeal.

Workers at a Starbucks in the area of Buffalo, N.Y. have voted to unionize — in a first for the coffee chain. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Dave Jamieson, who covers labor for HuffPost.

Over the past decade, U.S. coal production has fallen by half as utilities switched to cheaper natural gas or renewable energy. But this year, demand is up for a different kind of coal.

Reports from global media watchdogs suggest it is true: press freedoms in Pakistan are deteriorating. Why is Pakistan's media under pressure, and where is that pressure coming from?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the European Union's top competition official, Margrethe Vestager, about how governments should be handling big tech firms.

New York's attorney general wants to question ex-president Trump in a civil fraud case. U.S. Delta cases surge. A Michigan school district, its officials and some staff, are sued after a shooting.

Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Nair were under lockdown in Paris only miles apart from each other. A Different Distance compiles the almost daily poems they wrote from March 2020 to March 2021.

The white former Minnesota police officer is charged with manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. The defense says it was an accident when she grabbed her gun instead of a taser.

COVID-19 cases are rising in parts of Pennsylvania. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Jeffrey Jahre, an infectious disease expert with St. Luke's University Health Network, based in Bethlehem, Pa.

Morning Edition host Noel King is leaving NPR. We look back at some of her most memorable moments on the show.