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People look at a lowland gorillas at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit on July 8, 2003, in New York City.

After the Toronto Zoo warned visitors against showing videos to gorillas, NPR's Scott Simon wonders what sort of motion pictures might entertain a great ape.

Players on both teams celebrated on the field after the HBCU Swingman Classic concluded.

At the HBCU Swingman Classic, pro baseball confronts its decline in Black players

Jackie Robinson's sport is at a low point in professional Black American representation. An exhibition game spearheaded by Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and others aims to help change that.

Abortion-rights protesters gather following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.

Roe v. Wade live blog archive

The U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.

SANDAG government offices. San Diego, Calif. Jan. 13, 2023.

SANDAG refinances tax revenue, saving $40 million in long-term borrowing costs

SANDAG refinanced the over $433 million in sales tax revenue in its role as the San Diego Regional Transportation Commission.

A Taliban edict issued this month will shutter some 3,000 women-run salons in Kabul. Above: A young woman visits a a beauty salon in Kabul to prepare for a wedding party. A ministry spokesman said the reason for the ban was that Afghan men are pressured to go into debt to pay for wedding makeovers for brides and their womenfolk.

Inside Kabul's beauty salons: One of the last places women can gather now must close

The Taliban has ordered all beauty shops in Kabul to close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the last places where women can work and congregate as restrictions on women are mounting..

Attorney General William Barr takes the oath before he appears before the House Oversight Committee on July 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.

Trump's former AG Bill Barr says failing to prosecute Trump would be 'unjust'

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says Trump's actions amounted to "flipping the bird at the government" provoking a federal indictment on his own.

<strong>Left to right:</strong> Larry McCallum, <strong></strong>Reagan Bunch, AJ Jacobs, Trinity Locklear, Kayla Tran, Bryson Hyman

Rural voters lean red, young voters lean blue. So what's a young, rural voter to do?

Democrats are aiming to make gains in North Carolina in 2024. And that path to victory in the state runs through its small towns and youngest voters. Here's where some of them stand.

In a special legislative session that lasted around 15 hours, Republican lawmakers passed a "fetal heartbeat" bill that would effectively ban abortion after six weeks on Tuesday, July 11. Hundreds of Iowans rallied at the Capitol in protest and support of the legislation, clashing often in the building's rotunda.

Evangelical Christian voters in Iowa love Trump. Can another Republican win them over?

At the Family Leader summit in Des Moines, GOP presidential hopefuls will try to convince Iowa's influential evangelical voting bloc they have the conservative credentials to win the caucuses.

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of <em>Parable of the Sower</em>.

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical retelling explores the web of past, present and future.

"Colonial Atmosphere" by San Diego and Baja-based cross-border artists the de la Torre Brothers is currently installed at The Cheech in Riverside, Calif., shown in an undated photo.

Border artists the de la Torre Brothers celebrated at The Cheech

Cheech Marin's new Chicano art museum in Riverside opens with a major, three-decade retrospective of the surreal, mixed-media works of San Diego/Tijuana artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre.

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