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Make It Scream, Make It Burn Essays by Leslie Jamison Hardcover, 257 pages | purchase Buy Featured Book Title Make It Scream, Make It Burn Subtitle Essays Author Leslie Jamison Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? In her new book of essays, Leslie Jamison reminds us more than once that the Roman playwright Terence’s […]

Click:block production machine Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. “There is no question, I think, to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to […]

A federal appeals court has granted President Trump a temporary stay of decision, saying he does not have to turn over eight years of tax records for a New York state criminal probe. Updated at 10:59 a.m. ET A federal appeals court has granted President Trump a temporary stay of decision, and he will not […]

Wildhood The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers Hardcover, 354 pages | purchase Buy Featured Book Title Wildhood Subtitle The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals Author Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? […]

Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal was shot and killed after making a traffic stop on Friday near Houston. The suspected gunman was charged with capital murder in the slaying. A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Friday afternoon in the Houston suburbs during a routine traffic stop. Sandeep Dhaliwal was the first observant Sikh […]

Speedboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard circle the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero on Sunday, July 21 in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, after it was seized in the Strait of Hormuz two days earlier. A British oil tanker detained by Iran will soon be released, according to an Iranian maritime official. The tanker, the […]

The Justice Department on Sunday said it was treating a mass shooting in Texas as domestic terrorism, while 2020 candidates and politicians across the spectrum, frustrated by a string of deadly shootings, battled over President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on minorities and whether it is encouraging violence. “There’s a statutory definition of domestic terrorism — this […]

Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz from the Austrian People’s Party, OEVP, speaks at a closing rally ahead of elections in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday. The Austrian elections are on Sunday. Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET Austria’s youngest-ever chancellor, 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz, is poised to reclaim his job after his party received its biggest victory in […]

The back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend shook up the Democratic presidential primary, elevating the profile of lower-tier candidates, reorienting the focus of the contest and fusing the divisive issues of immigration, racism and gun control for the first time on the campaign trail. The tragedies have the potential to change […]

The 33-year-old is on holiday in Barbados following the end of the MLS season, having spent the past year-and-a-half with DC United. DC were thrashed 5-1 by Toronto in the MLS play-offs in Rooney’s final game for the club. The former Manchester United striker will join Derby as a player-coach on an 18-month deal from […]