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Comics Nadia Manzoor and Radhika Vaz play Muslim immigrants dealing with speed dating, catcalls and other aspects of life in secular New York in their sketch-comedy series Shugs & Fats.

The Golden State will become the fifth in the country where it’s legal for terminally ill people to take their own lives with the help of a physician.

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner are unveiling “Starshot,” their new space exploration initiative.

Two more deaths in the Flint area have been linked to Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow in the governance studies program and director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution, about why a contested convention seems undemocratic to some, but is protected by the First Amendment and supported by the courts. She gives examples in history and compares the U.S. system with democracies around the world.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's "going to rule himself out of the presidential race and put this to rest once and for all." The speaker has repeatedly, publicly denied any interest in the office or the possibility of a "dark horse" run at a contested GOP convention in Cleveland.

With taxes on the minds of many Americans this week, a Senate committee looks at how vulnerable taxpayers' information is to cyber theft. The head of the IRS testifies on Capitol Hill.

In 2008, Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero was fatally stabbed in Patchogue, N.Y. NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with Sister Margaret Smyth on how the village is doing, a few days before Donald Trump is set to speak at a Republican Party fundraiser there.

Economic data show that men still make a dollar for every 79 cents a woman earns. A half-century ago, that figure was just 59 cents. So, much progress has been made, but a large wage gap persists.

The leaked documents tell the backstory of a groundbreaking Christie's auction, and the purchase of a painting one man claims was seized from his grandfather during World War II.