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World Cup semifinals continue Wednesday. Defending champ France plays Morocco — the first African and majority-Arab nation to make it this far in the tournament. The winner faces Argentina on Sunday.

Rapper Megan Pete, known as Megan Thee Stallion, took the stand in a LA courtroom to testify against rapper Tory Lanez. Pete says Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, shot her in 2020.

Elon Musk is using his selective release of internal Twitter communications to advance his own partisan causes and conspiracy theories.

A key Lockerbie bombing suspect is in U.S. custody. Karen Bass is sworn in as Los Angeles mayor. Rupert Murdoch to be deposed today in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

NPR’s A Martinez talks to David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about the Federal Reserve’s plans to approve another rate hike this week. The European Central Bank is preparing to do the same.

Los Angeles has a new mayor, former Rep. Karen Bass, who now is the first woman to head City Hall. NPR’s A Martinez talks to Benjamin Oreskes, a metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Disgraced crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried pledged to make a fortune just to give it all away. Does the downfall of FTX invite more scrutiny of billionaires who vow to save the world?

So what is it that makes one cookbook stand out over another? Curiosity, for one. A need to learn more about a culture, cuisine, or technique. A desire to perfect a Mexican pozole, Korean pancake, Japanese pickle, or French-style cake.

Argentina has made it to the quarter finals of the 2022 World Cup, but the road has been a winding one. In our bonus episode, we take a moment to reflect on the scores and stumbles of the qualifying rounds, and speculate on what’s to come for our hero, Lionel Messi. Host Jasmine Garsd discusses Arge…

Following attacks on two power substations in North Carolina, former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff tells NPR that more can be done to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.