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Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with a tale of human endurance. A 19-year-old was working on a boat off the coast of Indonesia.

Former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is considering a 2020 White House run - as an independent candidate.

President Trump says a border wall would address a humanitarian crisis. But the wall would cut through Native American land on the Arizona-Mexico border.

At his inauguration two years ago, Donald Trump promised voters a long list of things he would do as president.

When President Trump met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore earlier this year, he called the talks - and the plan to denuclearize North Korea in exchange for better relations with the U-S - a great success.

Sister Helen Prejean is best known for her 1993 memoir, Dead Man Walking, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row. The story was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.

Jessup Collins wants out. The main character of Alexi Zentner's tough new novel, Copperhead, Jessup is a 17-year-old high school football star with a decent shot at getting a college scholarship. That scholarship is essential because Jessup, his mom and his kid sister live paycheck-to-paycheck in a trailer on the outskirts of an upstate New York town that sounds a lot like Ithaca.

Sarah Smarsh is a daughter of the white working class. Born in rural Kansas, Smarsh traces her lineage back through five generations of family farmers. She also traces herself back through generations of teenage pregnancies; Smarsh's mother was just 17 when she had her.

On the next Morning Edition, are more people visiting national parks for the scenery - or for the selfies? Also, how a song about fear and depression became an unlikely anthem for young black men.

With liberals increasingly energized in the current political environment, some faith leaders see new opportunities to rally religious voters in support of progressive causes and revive a Religious Left.