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NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY SPEAKS WITH RECENTLY RELEASED BURMESE DISSIDENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI (ong sahn SOO chee) AT HER LAKESIDE HOME IN RANGOON ABOUT HER DETENTION AND HER STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mauricio Noriega ahead of the Copa América final in which Argentina and Brazil will face off for the third time in the tournament's history.

John Kerry, the former secretary of state and now President Biden's special envoy for climate, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Moscow since Biden took office.

Noah Adams speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Kyle Pope about last week's IRA bombing in London. Pope says there is new evidence that the bombing was planned even before former Senator George Mitchell's peace plan was made public three weeks ago. -b- 14. THE PATRIOT - Alan Cheuse reviews a new novel by British writer Pier Paul Read. It's a thriller set in post Cold-War Berlin. The book is published by Random House.

The senator from Arizona has been leading bipartisan talks on infrastructure. Asked about criticism from fellow Democrats she's compromising too much, Sinema said she's focused on getting things done.

Wade Gooydwn has a wrap-up of Wednesday's opening arguments in the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, a former Marine accused of killing Navy Seal Chris Kyle. Kyle is the subject of the film American Sniper.

In reaction to an NPR/MSHN investigation, federal regulators, a member of Congress and others are considering ways to crack down on mining companies that fail to pay delinquent mine safety penalties.

There was cheering when nearly 200 countries reached an historic agreement to stem global warming. But the frantic deal making says something about what it may take to carry the agreement out.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Biden on Tuesday — as the embattled Ukrainian leader tries to keep the U.S. focused on his country's confrontation with Russia.

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes COVID-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."

The effort to get people out of Afghanistan includes a man working all night, every night, on a farm in Missouri. He's a congressional staffer talking with upwards of 100 Afghans stranded in Kabul.

Mourners turned out in Montgomery, Ala., to remember civil rights pioneer Julian Bond, who died Aug. 15. In 1971, he became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery.

In Memphis, evictions have resumed. But there's a concerted effort to keep people in their homes, using innovative strategies to get federal rental assistance to those who need it.

Producers and consumers in southwestern Alaska see one upside to climate change. It's now possible to farm in parts of the tundra where agriculture was unheard of just a few years ago.

In what may herald an exciting series, Game 1 of the NBA Finals went into overtime Thursday night. But the Warriors ran away from the Cavaliers in the final five minutes, winning 108-100.

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint's second book reads like poetry, an embodied experience of exquisite reflections on family and rootedness and deracination and sorrow and love.

There's new urgency to get billions of dollars in federal rental assistance to tenants and landlords. Memphis, without an eviction ban since July, has figured out some things that work.

Lemar is a photojournalist who used to work for Voice of America. He worries about his family's future as they haven't been evacuated.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Kyle Hightower, Associated Press reporter in Boston, talk about the New England Patriots cutting quarterback Cam Newton, and starting rookie Mac Jones instead.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida works with Florida State University to ensure it that its football team accurately presents Seminole traditions and imagery.