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For many years, African-Americans have faced discrimination on street corners, getting bypassed while hailing a cab. Now academic researchers say they have found a similar pattern of discrimination involving popular ride hailing apps. The findings were based on some 1,500 trips in Boston and Seattle. In Boston, Uber drivers cancelled rides for passengers with African-American sounding names more than twice as much as for people with white sounding names. And in Seattle, African-Americans waited significantly longer for ride requests to Uber and Lyft to be accepted.

It's common for governors to raise money for political allies. What's not common is for governors to spend tens of millions of dollars out of their own pocket for political allies. But that's exactly what Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is doing on behalf of statehouse Republicans.

News reports have raised a host of potential connections between Donald Trump and the Kremlin, from electronic links to Trump's alleged cultivation by Russian intelligence. NPR takes a look at what is known and confirmed about the potential Russian ties.

Natalie Babbitt died Monday at her home in Connecticut at age 84. She was a writer who never talked down to the children she wrote for. That included covering big concepts like death.