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Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died.
A family spokesperson says she died Tuesday under hospice care in Texas.
Colvin was 15 when she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman nine months before Rosa Parks.
Myanmar has been charged with the genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority in a case that opened this week at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the proceedings are being watched for clues on how the court could deal with future cases, such as the one against Israel over its actions in Gaza.
Japanese shares are again leading Asian stock markets in Wednesday trading.
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei is up more than 1.5 percent.
Following a pullback on Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell two-tenths of a percent from its all-time high.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as part of a major military operation overnight that rocked the country's capital, Caracas.
NPR's Greg Myrie reports on Trump's announcement early this morning, saying Maduro has been taken out of the country.
Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
NPR's Kerry Kahn is keeping track of events in Venezuela from her base in Rio de Janeiro.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on allies in Europe and on Capitol Hill to defend the military operation to oust Maduro.
Rubio has long argued that Maduro was not a legitimate leader and is under indictment in the U.S.