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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Omar Apollo about his psychedelically soulful music and his full-length album, "Ivory."

NPR's Leila Fadel tours the Ukrainian city of Lviv, where a number of provocative war-time posters have gone up since Russia's invasion began, and she meets the artist behind the work.

Supporters of Imran Khan took to the streets in protest while the political opposition prepared to install his replacement.

The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats.

The stakes will be high when the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings into an eavesdropping program President Bush says is needed to fight terrorism, and critics say breaks the law.

As jurors prepare for deliberations in the Enron federal fraud and conspiracy trial, NPR's Wade Goodwyn provides a look inside the courtroom. Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling surprised pundits by keeping his temper in check on the stand. But the courtroom crackled with animosity during founder Ken Lay's testimony.

Ten years after California prohibited race-based preferences in public education, the University of California, Los Angeles will welcome its smallest class of African-American freshmen in more than 30 years. Ward Connerly, chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, acknowledges the lack of diversity at UCLA is alarming. But he says that's the point.

Questions were still rolling in from the media, five days after Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident. Cheney's delay in telling the story is emblematic for reporters, who often find the vice president elusive and difficult to cover.

One of the first areas of the Iraqi army to "stand up" was the First Battalion of the First Brigade, now stationed in Ramadi. A recent visit shows they're still dependent on the U.S. military for food, medical supplies, water and gasoline. And soldiers report that to join the battalion, new recruits must pay a bribe of up to $600.

Analysts are divided over the direction U.S.-Iran relations may take as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assumes the presidency. Most agree his election confirms the controlling power of conservative clerics. But some say key hardliners see a value in better U.S. relations.