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Cornelia Li for NPR toggle caption Cornelia Li for NPR There is a group of about 150 people in federal prison known as "old law" prisoners who committed crimes before November 1987 and still have little hope of release. Cornelia Li for NPR Davon-Marie Grimmer has been struggling to get help for more than year for her cousin, Kent Clark. Sometimes, when he calls from prison, he asks to speak with relatives who are no longer alive. Sometimes, he forgets the name of his cellmate. "As far as I know, he hasn't received any medical attention for the dementia,...

In the new middle-grade novel My Best Friend Is Extinct, a lonely 10-year-old boy discovers a wounded, bear-like creature living in the snow and must nurse it back to health while facing bullies and sabre-toothed tigers. The story begins smack in the middle of a wild snowball fight. At Henry’s new school, two warring factions, the Weasels and the Packrats, are competing over who can build the bigger, deeper snow fort. While digging inside the Packrats’ fort, Henry catches a glimpse of a “furry thing,” but the fort suddenly crashes on top of him. Henry becomes obsessed with finding th...

Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockdown in April. This past year was like no other. The world suffered deeply from the novel coronavirus and many endured difficult sacrifices. But other news never stopped in 2020. Tensions escalated with Iran after the U.S. killed a top Iranian general. Britain made an arduous exit from the European Union. China enacted tough new authority over ...