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A plan has been announced for a cessation of fighting in Syria in one week's time. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. special envoy for Syria, about what the pause would mean.

A specific question has been on the minds of a lot of people in the Kalamazoo arts community lately: What happens when the media changes, and arts…

This fall, voters in California may get to weigh in on two very different ballot measures on capital punishment — one to ban the death penalty and another to expedite executions. California still sentences convicted murderers to death, but there hasn't been an execution there since 2006. That's when a federal judge suspended capital punishment. On a rare tour of San Quentin State Prison, NPR found death row inmates stuck in high security limbo.

Maybe this is all part of some performance-art piece we've been unwittingly sucked into. But either way, it seems to be working.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ferguson Mayor James Knowles about why the City Council decided to change an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the subsequent lawsuit against the city.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to author Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-Palestinian whose satirical weekly columns in Haaretz newspaper are collected in his new book called Native.

A carpet weaver in the ancient city of Shiraz continues her family tradition, but doesn't earn enough to support her large family. Will the easing of economic sanctions on Iran make a difference?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tom Goldstein, editor of SCOTUSblog, about how the death of Justice Antonin Scalia affects current cases under the Supreme's Courts review.

NPR's legal affairs correspondent talks about about Scalia's life, legacy and what's next.

(MPRN-Lansing) The state House could take up another emergency spending bill this week to help address the Flint water crisis. The state Senate has…