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Two deputies who fired shots in the April incident that killed Brown, came back from leave this week, the Pasquotank County, N.C., sheriff said. A third deputy will leave at the end of June.

Five years after Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, many African Americans in the St. Louis area remain frustrated by racial inequity. But some see signs of reforms taking hold.

The far-right internet began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson only after a series of tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists.

Gov. John Kitzhaber apologized to "all those people who gave of their faith, time, energy and resources to elect me to a fourth term last year." Secretary of State Kate Brown will be interim governor.

The NFL is appealing a disciplinary officer's decision to suspend Deshaun Watson for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy over sexual misconduct allegations.

Ella Jones, who will be the city's first black mayor and the first female mayor, says the city has seen widespread reforms since Brown's killing. But it still needs to "strive toward a better image."

This week, Wait Wait is live at Carnegie Hall with special guest Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and panelists Paula Poundstone, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Mo Rocca

Gen. Brown has had a four-decade military career, serving as a combat pilot and chief of the Air Force. He was confirmed as chairman of the joint chiefs by a Senate vote of 83-11.

The end of an era is approaching in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown will leave office next Monday. Brown's successor — Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom — will take over with a very different style.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with musician Derek Brown about his new album Beatbox Sax. Brown squeezes sounds out of his instrument that sound more like stand up bass, than saxophone.