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NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata about her comedy special <em>The First Woman.</em>

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Fiona Hill, senior policy advisor at the Brookings Institute and former white house advisor, about the apparent death of Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with David Hume Kennerly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has photographed 10 U.S. presidents, about former President Trump’s mug shot.

Monday marks 60 years since the 1963 March on Washington. Some 250,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial, including A. Peter Bailey, Courtland Cox and Edith Lee-Payne.

Celebrated Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa died at age 59 in Damascus. An important figure in contemporary Arabic literature, he was known for his outspoken nature and proclivity to critique power.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Troye Sivan about his new album “Something To Give Each Other,” which features songs about aspects of queer life that don’t always get a mainstream audience.

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Arwa Damon, former international foreign correspondent for CNN, about the impact of trauma on Israelis and Palestinians as a result of successive eruptions of violence.

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with <em>Guardian </em>columnist Arwa Mahdawi, about her latest piece titled “Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so.”

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with Philip Luther of Amnesty International, about Israel’s administrative detention policy, under which thousands of Palestinians are held without charge.

Dolly and Donna, two dolphins at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany, appear to be able to sense electric fields — an ability that might help them detect prey buried in sand or enhance their navigation.

Union workers in Paris’s Effiel tower have gone on strike, closing the monument’s doors on what was meant to be a day of commemoration of its creator.

NPR’s Music Desk share their favorites from 2023 Tiny Desk Concerts.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with tech journalist Cory Doctorow about how 2023 was the year when a lot of people pointed out that some important places on the Internet are getting worse.

Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change can be difficult.

Photographer Evan Russel and fine artist James McGrew set out to capture an elusive natural phenomenon. But as they discovered, nature can be fickle.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Hoover, about her latest piece in <em>WIRED </em>magazine, “Glassdoor Wants To Know Your Real Name.”

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with open source researcher Connor Plunkett, about his report with Bellingcat titled “Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews.”

Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album <em>The Curve</em>, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of <em>The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.</em>

Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire for months now. Tuesday's strike in Beirut will further stir international fears of a wider regional war.