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District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says he plans to reach out to every segment of the community after he was re-elected over the weekend. He defeated Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in a run-off. Some voters have concerns about their city's future under Nagin, but others say they've already seen positive changes.

Workers at stores and restaurants have been at the center of confrontations over masks. As most of the country relaxes mask mandates at the CDC's guidance, anxiety isn't over for workers.

Ten years after Trayvon Martin's killing sparked the start of a racial justice movement, a small museum in Sanford, Fla., is working to preserve the Black teenager's legacy.

The sitcom Parks and Recreation created Galentine's Day as a celebration of lady friendships. Almost a decade later, it has fully left the realm of TV and entered capitalist reality.

At the turn of the 20th century, visiting a drug store meant going to a soda counter with a pharmacist. If you wanted to go shopping, you would go to a department store. Now that trend is reversing: drug stores are battling to keep consumers in the store for longer.

In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Elizabeth Paton of The New York Times about the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to John Porcari, port envoy of the White House's Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, to see how he's facilitating the supply of goods in the holiday season.

Two decades ago, labor unions warned that the North American Free Trade Agreement would drive away U.S. jobs and push wages down. Today, unions feel as strongly as ever that NAFTA was a mistake for U.S. workers, but quantifying the factors behind the decline in the middle class is no simple matter.