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At 104 years old, Gilbert Seltzer remembers his time in a secret Army unit in World War II, helping deceive the enemy with rubber artillery and the recorded sounds of rumbling tanks.

In some remote border towns in Texas along the Rio Grande, U.S. citizens cross back and forth for medical care in Mexico. It's a technically illegal reality that local Border Patrol acknowledges.

The annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in the nation's capital will host its last ride this Memorial Day. The group is calling it quits after three decades due to high costs and logistics issues.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to analyst Asha Rangappa about the indictment of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act and why she believes that free speech is not an adequate defense.

"Disappear? We're not going to do that," she said. She went 10 times to the courthouse before the registrar would sign her up to vote. Then she worked to guard the right and never missed an election.

A raid on a journalist's home to determine the source of a police leak led to a firestorm over press freedoms and the First Amendment.

The Pentagon would not say where the troops would be sent, other than that they would not be heading to Iraq and Syria. Some of the forces have already arrived in the region.

The case drew national attention as a search for 13-year-old Jayme Closs ended when she escaped captivity and led authorities to her kidnapper.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said this week that the Harriet Tubman $20 bill redesign won't happen until 2026, at the earliest, but not everyone is waiting until then for the change.

A new law, signed by the governor earlier this week, is aimed at helping diabetics afford the lifesaving medication.

On a seventh grade field trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, students and their teacher said they were racially profiled by museum staff, with some leaving the museum in tears.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposal to end Obama-era rules protecting transgender people from discrimination in health care.