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Police departments are toning down the law enforcement, and offering drug users recovery help instead. But convincing drug users to accept the help is not easy.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with David Cooke, district attorney for Macon, Ga., about how prosecutors like himself plan to push back on new anti-abortion laws by not enforcing them.

Universities are raising food and housing prices faster than inflation.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with filmmaker Alysa Nahmias about her new documentary, "Cookie Queens." It follows Girl Scouts as they hustle to sell box after box over one cookie season.

A study shows the main drivers of Juul's social media presence are young people and third-party vendors, not the company itself. And vaping continues to look cool online among young people.

More than 500 Yemenis are awaiting asylum decisions on a South Korean resort island that allowed them to arrive visa-free. Their presence has sparked nationwide protests.

On Thanksgiving Day, people in New Jersey reported a kite surfer being carried out to sea. The Coast Guard looked for 16 hours. The surfer, who didn't know he was missing, called to say he was safe.

What kind of music gets Olympic athletes pumped up when they're working out? Taekwondo competitor Paige McPherson talks about what gets her going.

Photographer George Rodriguez has chronicled a visual history of Los Angeles over his multidecade career. His work is being celebrated in a new book as well as his first retrospective.

The killing of reporter James Foley has brought to light the trend of radicalized U.K. citizens going to fight in Syria and Iraq. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to the Huffington Post UK's Mehdi Hasan.