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Sometimes the distress call arrives quietly in an ordinary email.“Hey Amy. Hope all is well with you. I would love to get together with you for coffee or…

Young writers who are Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority, see their own struggles in Amanda Gorman's poetry, and are translating her new book into Hungarian.

Channing Tatum plays a real-life robber who hid out in a Toys"R"Us in the new movie Roofman.

Congress was late to adopt workplace laws that protect private sector employees. How has that shaped its culture? NPR speaks with Rutgers professor James R. Jones, author of "The Last Plantation."

The military plans to start screening service members for low testosterone, and social media is overflowing with claims about testosterone therapy. But who actually needs it?

Prine's new live disc, In Person & On Stage, provides a career-spanning primer for this live set in Newport, R.I.

The rising R&B and bluesman shows off his fiery guitar chops in a performance from World Cafe Live.

President Trump on Monday named Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new national security adviser

NPR's Melissa Block talks to Jason R. Baron, former director of litigation at the National Archives, about federal laws governing email.

The Las Vegas mass shooting, in which at least 50 people were killed and more than 400 others were wounded, is being described as the deadliest in U.S.…

After nearly seven decades of cutting hair, Tony Manzi is putting his clippers away. Manzi, known around Cranston, R.I., as "Tony the Barber," is retiring on Thursday.

President Biden met with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who is leading the talks for Republicans on an infrastructure bill. Some Democrats are frustrated Biden is willing to compromise on one.

Liane Hansen talks with Miles Chapin (CHAY-pin), o-editor of, "Tales From The Jungle: A Rainforest Reader." It's a collection f fiction and non-fiction which illustrates changing attitudes toward the ainforest during the 19th and 20th centuries. Chapin reads an excerpt from rthur Conan Doyle's 1912 book, "The Lost World." 7:00 "Tales From The Jungle: A Rainforest Reader;" edited by Daniel R. Katz and iles Chapin; Crown Trade Paperbacks,

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including O.J. Simpson trial Prosecutors Christopher Darden and arcia Clark; Rep. Tom Daschle (D-SD), Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Surgeon eneral Nominee Henry Foster; Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) and Senator James xon (D-NEB) on the budget; The Chairperson of the National Economic Council aura Tyson on Japan trade sanctions; a Japanese hijacked passanger; and resident Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas, saying 1996 will be his last lection.

2: Art historian and curator MARK ROSENTHAL. He is curator of the new exhibition "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (Feb 9 - May 12). There's also a companion book to the exhibition, same title, published by Guggenheim. ROSENTHAL is Curator of Twentieth Century at the National Gallary of Art, Washington D.C. and formerly Consultative Curator at the Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum.

This year has been one of the best in a decade for the olive crop in the West Bank. But as N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam reports, tension between settlers and Palestinian farmers leaves many trees unpicked, and those farmers who do venture out risk running into armed nervous settlers who suspect them of being terrorists.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Ill.; Susan Archibald, president of Linkup; Senate Chaplain Lloyd Ogilvie; Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and David Obey (D-WI); audiotape, released this week by al Jazeera, which U.S. officials believe is from Osama bin Laden; President George W. Bush; Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Former CBS correspondent Larry LeSueur died Feb. 5 at age 93. He was one of the last surviving newsmen hired by Edward R. Murrow to cover World War II. He covered the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the Eastern Front from Russia, and the D-Day invasion at Normandy. His biographer considers him the best and bravest of the 20th century's war reporters.

Control of the Senate Judiciary Committee officially switches from Democrats to Republicans, with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) taking over as chairman. Hatch says the panel will move quickly to consider President Bush's judicial nominees, including controversial candidates recently renominated by the president. NPR's David Welna reports.

Researchers from Yale and Brown Universities report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association that they have measured the actual brain volume of children who were born prematurely, using M.R.I. scans once the children reached eight years of age. They found that the earlier the premature birth, the more insult to the brain, resulting in a related decrease in I.Q. test scores. It's a first step towards quantifying how much delayed brain development affects intelligence. NPR's Michelle Trudeau has the story.