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A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the University of Michigan to stop considering race as a factor in its admissions. Robert Siegel talks about the case with Jeffrey Rosen, associate professor of law at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Detroit winced today when it learned fewer than a million people were counted as living in the city. The census results are a blow to both civic pride and Detroit's budget. Some say the numbers only catch the Motor City making a big U-turn toward vitality, as Quinn Klinefelter from member station WDET reports.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the Supreme Court on whether states may legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes, despite federal laws against it.

Host Renee Montagne speaks with Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit about how President Bush's foreign policy plan is being perceived in Europe.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Marc Levin, Daphne Pinkerson, and Daniel Voll, the producers of a new documentary on HBO titled Soldiers in the Army of God. The film documents a year in the life of three men involved in the violent fringe of America's anti-abortion movement. The men say the killing of abortion providers is justifiable because it protects the lives of unborn children. Renee's interview comes one day after anti-abortion activist James Kopp was arrested in Europe. Kopp -- one of the FBI's most wanted -- is suspected of killing Barnett Slepian, a doctor who provided abortions in Buffalo, New York. The documentary airs Sunday night on HBO.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a new Federal Trade Commission study into the responsibility of oil companies for the exceptionally high Midwestern gasoline prices last summer. The FTC concludes that the oil industry did not take illegal collective action to drive gasoline prices upward, but that individual companies did limit refinery production to maximize prices. In Chicago, Milwaukee, and other parts of the Midwest, prices at the pump exceeded $2 a gallon.

Commentator Fernando Gonzales views the 2000 census as a wake-up call to Americans who have failed to notice the growth of the Latino population and its increasing role in U.S. politics and culture.

NPR's Peter Overby reports from Washington, D.C., about the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. After years of being blocked by partisan politics, McCain-Feingold may finally pass, effectively changing the rules of political fundraising. (4:01) For more NPR News coverage on the issue, check out Money, Power & Influence.

The will game likely spark greater debate about the team's name and fans' tomahawk chop, which some Native Americans consider offensive.

Meta, the newly-named parent company of Facebook, is investing $10 billion in technologies to develop the metaverse this year alone.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the 2000 census data shows that white people no longer hold the majority in California. In fact, there is no ethnic majority in that state, and demographers say this could be the future of other regions of the U.S. (3:56) For more, check out NPR News coverage of the 2000 census.

Ancestry consultant Nicka Sewell-Smith talks about the new collection and finding her own family's origin.