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Art Whistler was a botanist and an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii. He traveled the South Pacific, documenting its plants. He died of COVID-19 at the age of 75.

The George Floyd protests have breathed new life into a movement to end a legal doctrine called "qualified immunity" and meant to limit lawsuits against police.

The National Bureau of Economic Research has announced Monday the U.S. economy is officially in a recession. Economists said the recession is unusual, but they hope it could end quickly.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with food writer Grace Young, who made a series of YouTube videos Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, about the state of New York's Chinatown at the moment.

Protests over George Floyd's death are happening not only in big cities. They are popping up in small towns where many people have never protested before.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette barred a black reporter from covering unrest over a flippant tweet. The same day, editors gave a white reporter only a warning for a vulgar tweet about a looting suspect.

In a handwritten note on the order for conditional release, the judge added a stipulation for Chauvin: "Do not work in law enforcement or security."

The Democratic Party standard bearer's opposition comes as more activists call on cities and states to defund or abolish police departments, which President Trump's campaign has seized on.

The pandemic has caused some abortion providers to close and made it more difficult for citizens to go out. Clinics are looking for alternatives. Some are turning to telemedicine.

Over 90-some years of movies about jazz, many films have spun a familiar lick, sometimes falling back on stock standards when inspiration fails, and sometimes knowingly quoting from older works.