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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., accepts a gift of a traditional Ethiopian shirt from Girum Alemayehu at an Ethiopian festival in Denver in August 2016. Coffman has survived multiple tough re-election campaigns in part due to his outreach to various immigrant communities in his district.

Will Trump And Guns Be Enough To Unseat An Endangered House Republican?

Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman is one of the GOP's most battle-tested incumbents. In 2018, President Trump's unpopularity and an energized Democratic base present his toughest hurdles to re-election yet.

Backpacks and cleaning supplies lie in the hallway of Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., on March 25, 1998, one day after the shooting.

20 Years Later, Jonesboro Shooting Survivors Conflicted Over Parkland

Saturday's gun control march falls on the 20th anniversary of a horrific Jonesboro, Ark., middle school shooting and has divided survivors along with the rest of the country.

A selection of artists from the first-ever NPR Turning the Tables readers' poll.

Turning The Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (As Chosen By You)

The results are in for our reader poll, and your picks for the greatest albums made by women deeply modify and sometimes openly challenge our original Turning the Tables list.

Vanessa Gueringer was born and raised in the Lower Ninth. She holds the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for her home being destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.

Army Corps Faces Mountain Of Mistrust In New Orleans' Ninth Ward

The Corps, which built the levees and floodwalls that failed during Hurricane Katrina, is back to propose a new infrastructure project. It's not going over well.

Willie Velasquez, former head of the Southwest Voter Registration Project, at a San Antonio warehouse for voting machines.

Willie Velasquez: Your Vote Is Your Voice

Stream now or tune in Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Volunteer Greg Ruegsegger is outfitted with monitors, a catheter threaded into a vein and a mask to capture his breath in an experiment run by Joyner to measure human performance.

Will Gathering Vast Troves of Information Really Lead To Better Health?

Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into research labs in an effort to collect genetic information on a million people. But some skeptics say the focus should be on humans themselves, not DNA.

The design of the Brooklyn Bridge allowed for two wine cellars, one on each shore.

A Sip Of History: The Hidden Wine Cellars Under The Brooklyn Bridge

The cool, dark caverns were a perfect place to store even the most delicate wines — and the income they generated helped offset construction costs of the massive 19th-century engineering project.

Royal supporter John Loughrey salutes with men dressed as soldiers carrying boards with proposed baby names outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London on Friday. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth at the hospital in the next few days.

Kate Middleton, Wife Of Prince William, Is In Labor

The Duchess of Cambridge checked into a London hospital and is in the early stages of labor, according to reports.

Ret. Army Sgt. First Class Max Voelz, 40, with Sgt. Mary Dague, 30, who helped him cope after his wife was killed disarming an IED in Iraq. They only met face-to-face recently, for their StoryCorps conversation.

Bomb Techs Work Through 'Dark Spots' To Brighter Lives

In an update to a 2011 StoryCorps interview, Ret. Army Sgt. 1st Class Max Voelz, whose wife died disarming an IED, and Sgt. Mary Dague, who lost both arms in Iraq, both say they are happy now.

Carmen strikes a pose for her younger sister, Evelyn, before homecoming in the fall of 2017.

After Daughter's 'Unimaginable' Death, Parkland Family Moved To Action

Carmen Schentrup was a senior, one week away from her 17th birthday, when she was killed. Her family reflects on her life, death and why "missing her doesn't feel like enough anymore."

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