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If you've always wanted to take a course at Harvard or with America's most talented chefs, but you didn't have the money, discipline or grades, now's your chance. The best part of this free online class: You can eat your lab experiments.

O'Brien has been working in the State Department as the administration's hostage negotiator. He'll replace former Ambassador John Bolton, who parted company with Trump.

Ismael Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said.

A great way for kids to brush up on reading skills? Why, reading to the barber, of course. That's the idea at one barbershop in Ypsilanti, Mich. Oh, and in Houston, Dubuque, Iowa, and Columbus, Ohio.

Four volunteers at the Charlottesville area’s top animal shelter have resigned, amid turmoil in the leadership and allegations of animal mistreatment… At a public hearing in Farmville, citizens give mixed grades to an updated draft of Virginia’s history standards prepared by the Youngkin administration… UVa economists and engineers work to determine how goals set forth by the eight-year-old Paris Climate Agreement might actually be reached….

A trailblazer of school desegregation in Charlottesville, one of the women featured in WMRA’s Voices of Integration series, returns to her hometown to address a women’s leadership forum… Virginia’s top elections official attended a conference in February apparently sponsored by conservative groups aimed at tightening voting laws… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad talks about the rich people from elsewhere spending money on Virginia’s election campaign this year….

Some public schools and roads are closed, and some customers are still without power after Wednesday’s high winds damaged power lines and spread wildfires… The second annual CulpeperCon, a celebration of graphic novels, fandom, and pop culture, is this weekend… A Grammy-winning composer, a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and one of the nation’s top singers of opera condense the last 50 years of American history in a performance at UVa….

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Matt Zemek, editor for Trojans Wire, about the cardiac arrest scare of top USC basketball prospect, Bronny James.

The U.S., India and Brazil lead with the most cases and account for nearly half of the world count. The U.S. alone is poised to hit 10 million cases as hospitalizations continue to climb.