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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Dominique Baker, professor at Southern Methodist University, about how effective affirmative action has been in achieving higher diversity on college campuses.

The longest-serving senator in U.S. history has died. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd died Monday in a Washington-area hospital at age 92. Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University, talks with Mary Louise Kelly about Byrd's legacy in the Senate and across his home state.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins. The awards continue with the literature prize on Thursday.

Famous for processed treats like Twinkies, Hostess Brands says it will go into liquidation if striking bakers don't return to work Thursday. Analysts say the company's most iconic brands would likely be bought by other companies.

The new top two leaders at the FBI are Trump loyalists with no prior experience at the bureau. NPR asks retired FBI special agent Thomas J. Baker for his impressions of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

Actor Patrick Swayze died yesterday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze played some real characters, from a surfer-dude bank robber to a road-tripping drag queen — and, of course, a dirty dancer. He said he always knew he was going to be a performer.

The seven officers involved in Daniel Prude's death have been suspended a day after Prude's family released the video of his March encounter with Rochester, N.Y., city police.

Roughly 20 million Americans live in mobile homes, once billed as low-cost living. But mobile home parks have become a target investment for real estate companies who are jacking up fees.

Services begin for two children who were killed in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting. It's led to brisk business for a florist there. It's so busy that flower designers from nearby cities have come to help.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled today in favor of hand counting so-called "undervotes," ballots that did not register a vote for president when run through counting machines. The divided 4-3 ruling was a victory for Al Gore. Many analysts have said he needed this ruling to keep alive his effort to overturn the certified Florida election results. The ruling was announced today by court spokesman Craig Waters. Former Secretary of State James Baker has vowed to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of George W. Bush. We hear some of Mr. Baker's remarks, and Noah speaks with NPR's Melissa Block who was at the courthouse today.