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Musician Alison Brown says that as a banjo player, she's excited about the future of the instrument, especially in the hands of women and people of color.
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This week on "The Range"...need a tattoo? We’ve got you covered. Also, a bus rider talks about the changes coming to the city’s transit center.
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For this month's En Route, Hugo Phan talks with a transit rider about what the location of the new biomedical campus will mean for bus passengers.
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Kelly says the $470 million cost of the latest proposal is not sustainable.
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In greater Topeka, as in school systems across America, students of color are concentrated in districts that disproportionately serve low-income families.
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A group of casino workers in Atlantic City, N.J., has asked a judge to ban smoking in casinos. Opponents of a ban warn the change could lead to steep economic declines.
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A small newspaper in the Midwest is the setting for a new version of the hit TV show The Office. We asked the editor of a tiny newsroom in rural Iowa about what the show should focus on.
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Lai Ching-te has been sworn into office with a promise to uphold democracy. Trained as a doctor, the unlikely politician has won a loyal following in southern Taiwan but remains despised in China.
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No survivors have been found at the site of the helicopter crash that carried Iran's president, the country's foreign minister and other officials, Iranian state media reports.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will find out if two judges are satisfied with assurances from the U.S. government about how he would be treated if he were he to face trial for espionage.