Janine Herbst

He says the body is far from the entrance and about 26 feet down, suggesting the cave was dry when someone placed it there, possibly as part of a burial ritual at least 8,000 years ago.

Officials say the find could add clues about early migration routes.

Mexico is working to protect the threatened caves.

I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

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Iranian State TV says the country has chosen a new leader, the hardline Mushtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the slain Supreme Leader.

He has close ties with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard, and his appointment signals a continuation of his father's rule and hardline stance.

President Trump has said Khamenei's son would be an unacceptable choice, and Israel's military has vowed to target any new supreme leader of Iran.

A leading investigative group says new video shows a U.S.

missile hit an area around an Iranian school at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

Iranian authorities say 175 people were killed, most of them schoolgirls.

And Pierce Jane Araf reports the U.S.

had denied hitting that school.

President Trump is facing a lot of economic headwinds as the 2026 midterm election year gets underway.

NPR's Mara Lyson has more.

Voting rights supporters are marking Bloody Sunday, the day in 1965 when Alabama state troopers beat civil rights marchers on a bridge in Selma.

Natasha Harris runs a print shop in Selma.

She says it's important to remember.

The violence energized the nation and led to the civil rights movement.

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