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Host Michel Martin continues the conversation with Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton. Her 15-year-old daughter was shot to death in Chicago last month, and President Obama highlighted the tragedy in his State of the Union address. Cowley-Pendleton talks about what she would like national leaders to think about when debating gun control policy.

Head coach Vlatko Andonovksi and the U.S. Soccer Federation have "mutually agree to part ways," the organization said. Last week, the USWNT was knocked out of the World Cup earlier than ever before.

The resignation of Gen. Zahir Zahir came after a series of attacks against foreigners in the capital that are attributed to the Taliban.

Step into the studio of Wolsey, South Dakota bootmaker Mark Schumacher.

Planned Parenthood says the organization's president, Cecile Richards is stepping down after more than a decade with the organization. Her 12-year career at the organization was full of highs and lows.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author writes about his relationship with his father, as well as his own experiences as the parent of four, in Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces.

When award-winning poet Brian Turner served in the Army, he was following a long family tradition. His new memoir traces that history — and imagines the perspectives of the people shooting back.

Dorsey will continue to head Square, the financial payments service. He has been criticized for leading both companies at once.

Francis Collins has served longer than any other director of the National Institutes of Health since 1971. He tells NPR he did not anticipate the culture wars taking over scientific fact.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Lillian Guerra, professor of Cuban and Caribbean history at the University of Florida, about Cuba after the Castros.