For a while now you've probably been hearing about bookbands, how they're gaining momentum everywhere in Texas, in Missouri, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

On the Code Switch Podcast, we're taking a look at why.

Why are so many books suddenly considered so dangerous to kids?

Listen to our new series on the Code Switch Podcast from NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange put allies and partners of the U.S. at risk when he released thousands of classified

military and diplomatic cables in 2010.

That's according to the State Department.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports Assange is now a free man after pleading

guilty to one charge of violating the Espionage Act.

Assange has long insisted that his release of classified documents about US

wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and confidential diplomatic cables was an act of free speech.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller disagrees.

He says many of the documents were not redacted.

Compromising the identities of human rights activists and opposition figures

US diplomats worked with, putting them in danger.

In the days leading up to that release, the State Department really had to scramble to get people out of danger, to move them out of harm's way.

It was an extraordinary effort.

Miller didn't name any specific cases.

Jackie Northam, NPR News.

The Supreme Court appears to have made its decision in a controversial Idaho abortion case

though the draft opinion that briefly appeared online was quickly taken down. In that draft ruling obtained

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