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The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

McLaurin, 48, will fill the post vacated by Ronnie Floyd, who resigned over the Executive Committee's handling of a third-party investigation into how the it addressed sexual abuse reports

Tim Brookes, who occasionally contributes essays to NPR, is also a passionate and talented guitar player. He has just published Guitar: An American Life, which he describes as part history and part love song. He talks about what he learned in working on the book.

Jim Obergefell was the named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. He spells out why the LGBTQ+ community is so concerned about Roe v Wade.

Dave Matthews Band is one of the most commercially successful rock groups in recent history. Here, Matthews reflects on his life in music after the release of the Grammy-nominated Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, as well as the death of one of his band's founding members.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lisa Hanna, a member of Jamaica's parliament, about how Jamaica's relationship with the monarchy may change after Queen Elizabeth II's death.

Timed for the centennial of MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas' history of British intelligence teems with double agents, whistle-blowers and moles. Drawn from Thomas' many contacts among spooks and spymasters, Secret Wars is a riveting read.

Author Lisa See is drawn to books by Japanese-American women and the issues they tend to write about: love, race, identity, place and history — and its effect on the present.

What actually happened on Independence Day? Did the rebels really wait until they saw the whites of British eyes at Bunker Hill? Historian Ray Raphael helps us debunk some of America's most popular — and believed — national creation myths.

Colombia's first leftist president will be sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of the country.