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Just over a week ago, officials in Sierra Leone noticed data suggesting an ominous trend: Ebola suddenly seemed to be spreading in Kono District, a land of towering mountains and muddy diamond mines.

"I want to get whatever's on my chest off my chest when it feels right," says the rapper, who makes songs that turn the personal into the political.

Cary Raditz, 68, gives his side of the story behind Joni Mitchell's 1972 song about him.

In Ferguson, Mo., some residents spent Tuesday cleaning up looted and vandalized businesses near the police station — some for the second time since the August shooting sparked public outcry.

Audie Cornish speaks to St. Louis University law professor Susan McGraugh about what the grand jury documents say about the process that was at work.

The prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County has released thousands of pages of documents from the Michael Brown case that offer differing accounts of the 90-second confrontation between Officer Darren Williams and Brown, which ended in Brown's death.

Described as a hard-nosed, old-school pragmatist, he was diagnosed with cancer shortly after leaving office in January.

Saturday Night Live is bringing a new face to the Weekend Update chair — comedian and former SNL writer, Michael Che.

On Monday, Deborah Rutter begins her job as president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She says it never occurred to her that she would be the first woman in the job.

The preservation of Yiddish as a spoken language gets more attention, but Yiddish once had a vibrant written tradition as well, filled with plays, poetry, novels and political tracts.