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We're marking Parkinson’s Awareness Month by talking with two people devoted to helping people living with the neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ramon Gil is a neurologist at the Parkinson’s Treatment Center Of Southwest Florida, and Mary Spremulli is a medical speech-language pathologist and owner of Voice Aerobics Speech Language Therapy in Punta Gorda. We also talk with one of her clients, a 78-year-old man named Mike Davidson who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016.

We're marking Parkinson’s Awareness Month by talking with two people devoted to helping people living with the neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ramon Gil is a neurologist at the Parkinson’s Treatment Center Of Southwest Florida, and Mary Spremulli is a medical speech-language pathologist and owner of Voice Aerobics Speech Language Therapy in Punta Gorda. We also talk with one of her clients, a 78-year-old man named Mike Davidson who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016.

The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.

The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.

City officials have named the 12 people killed in a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will ban transgender people from serving in the military, citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."

People used more cups and paper when recycling was an option versus when they had to put them in the trash. Researchers say people's guilt for wasting is overridden by the good feelings for recycling.

People in northern Kentucky are reacting to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. It is near the hometown of James Alex Fields Jr., the man who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one woman.

What is it that makes you...you? NPR's Shankar Vedantam explores new research that suggests the labels we use to categorize people affect not just who they are now, but who they'll be in the future.

In some cities, people have fallen in love with motorized scooters. The Los Angeles Times reports some people in that city have damaged scooters, throwing them off balconies or in the ocean.