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More demonstrations are planned in Grand Rapids, Mich., after the city released video of a white police officer shooting and killing a Black resident during a struggle after a traffic stop.

Demonstrators used high-powered lights to project the Ukrainian flag onto the walls of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Russians tried to outshine the flags with a spotlight, but failed.

David Patel, an Iraq scholar at Stanford University, explains the significance of Wednesday's attack in Iraq as well as its target, the Golden Mosque in Samarra.

Paul Tagliabue is retiring as NFL commissioner after more than 16 years on the job. Tagliabue will stay on with the NFL as a senior executive and a consultant through 2008.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Meredith Lee, food and agriculture reporter at Politico, about a deal between manufacturer Abbott Nutrition and the FDA aimed at relieving an infant formula shortage.

After a steady and spectacular climb, Google's stock price has become volatile in recent weeks. Unlike other companies, Google doesn't provide earnings forecasts. An unintended consequence is that whenever a company executive speaks, the market reacts in a big way.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to change the way it tests gas mileage on cars, starting with most 2008 models. The changes are meant to make mileage estimates more accurate. Renee Montagne talks to Paul Eisenstein, publisher of the Internet magazine The Car Connection.

Commentator Frank Deford reverses years of criticism about soccer with an appreciation of the game's global popularity. And he ponders the imponderable: A U.S. victory.

From ads to music, the airwaves and circuits are filled with messages and images about sex. Tweens -- kids roughly between the age of 8 and 12 -- are especially vulnerable to these suggestions, since they are what marketers call "age aspirational."

Congresswoman Jane Harman of the 36th District is one of the best-known Democratic hawks in the country. But that visibility has made her vulnerable to a challenge from antiwar activists in her liberal Southern California district's upcoming primary. Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC in Los Angeles reports.