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The only female prime minister Britain has ever had died Monday at age 87. When Margaret Thatcher took office, Great Britain was a county in trouble. Inflation was in double-digits and unemployment was on the rise. The top income tax rate stood at 83 percent and the country was being racked by one labor strike after another.

Singer-songwriter Carole King started young: She was just 15 when she founded a doo-wop group with her classmates. The act never took off, but King eventually became one of the biggest-selling artists of all time. She tells the story of her career so far in a new memoir, A Natural Woman.

Longtime Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to a tax fraud scheme in New York.

Too large? Too aggressive? The lions in a new, giant bronze sculpture of India's national emblem are prompting both praise and criticism. The statue was unveiled this week in New Delhi.

Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Josh Sugarmann, Violence Policy Center's executive director, about his analysis of 2019 homicide data and why Missouri was ranked #1 for Black homicide victimization.

Saudi leaders viewed their summit with President Biden as a success, but human rights advocates worry about the message it sent to the kingdom.

President Biden is under pressure to show he's doing all he can to bring down prices at the pump. He plans to talk Wednesday about how he'll pull more oil from emergency reserves.

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

It's a busy week in the sports world. The NBA season has tipped off and the MLB postseason is in full swing.