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The nation's aging pipes and water mains are springing expensive leaks, wasting more than 2 trillion gallons of drinking water nationally and 22 billion gallons in the Chicago area alone.

Did the agency spy on Senate staffers? Did those Senate aides take classified documents from the CIA's headquarters? Investigators are sorting through the accusations.

If you have young children at home, chances are you know Doc McStuffins. If you don't, comedian W. Kamau Bell will tell you why you should love the 6-year-old cartoon girl with a stethoscope.

Only a fraction of 9.6 million registered voters were expected to vote, deciding the democracy's fate.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey Riley about the state's plan to reopen schools in the fall despite the coronavirus pandemic.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Bob Woody, an owner of several bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, about his decision to reopen his establishments.

The prolonged procedure of picking a Republican presidential candidate just gets nastier and nastier. One man maligns another; the victim viciously bites back. And everybody piles on President Obama. A look at why this primary season has taken on a noticeably negative chill.

So far the presidential election is seemingly one endless night of bingeing and purging. One candidate sells like hotcakes for a while, then goes cold as a freezer-burned waffle. What's the deal with the electoral mood swings?

At the 2019 funeral for longtime NPR journalist Cokie Roberts, her husband, Steven, told personal stories about their life together. There were still more to tell, so he dove into writing about them.

Getting To Know The President is written by an ex-CIA officer, published by the spy agency's research wing and freely available on the CIA's website.