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The extremist group that carried out the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley engages in "cowardly acts" and "has no place in the 21st century," President Obama said Wednesday.

President Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV on Sunday. In a post on social media and comments to reporters, Trump said the American-born Pope is weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Wesleyan University President Michael Roth about the school's decision to end admission preference for children of alumni.

French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Friday making him one of few Western leaders to attend Vladimir Putin's annual event since the annexation of Crimea.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Charles Steele, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Steele is in Alabama marching from Selma to Montgomery in honor of the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" events in 1965.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Asli Aydintasbas, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about the military coup in Turkey from the vantage point of Ankara.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jonathan Shaub, a former U.S. Department of Justice legal adviser, about how the Trump administration is stymieing impeachment hearings with legally untested doctrine.

Obama commended the country's prolific metal scene while speaking with European Nordic leaders. "Finland is making the weirdest heavy metal imaginable," Decibel editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian says.

The international police organization Interpol will choose a new president on Wednesday. The position has little influence on the daily activities of the professional secretariat.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.