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Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration is pushing a conservative agenda including banning masks in schools, firing professors and urging parents to report critical race theory.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system.

Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the border for the first time as the Democratic presidential nominee. She's set to propose tighter rules for asylum claims, a campaign official said.

Some Bitcoin mining companies are turning away from cryptocurrency and embracing artificial intelligence. NPR's "The Indicator" podcast explains why.

The suspect in the shooting at Brown University and the death of a MIT professor was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, authorities announced Thursday.

Americans aren't saving enough for retirement, and old-fashioned retirement plans are partly to blame. That's according to Ben Steverman, who's a personal finance reporter for Bloomberg News. He tells host Michel Martin that people would be better prepared for retirement if employers were more innovative with 401(k) plans.

Renee Montagne talks with Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., one of two Muslim members of Congress, about recent comments by Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump about Muslims.

Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Ben Taub, who has a piece in The New Yorker, about why the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek has been a center for radical terrorists in recent years.

With contractions four and five minutes apart, Nicole Veum started to see and smell smoke at a Santa Rosa, Calif., hospital.

The White House announced Tuesday that President Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve Wednesday. She would replace Ben Bernanke, who's stepping down from the post. Yellen has been the presumptive nominee for weeks, after Lawrence Summers announced his intention to remove himself from the running in September. She'd be the first woman to head the Fed.