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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday that President Trump is making a bold move by saying the U.S. will "own" Gaza and vowed to stand with Trump on the issue.

Two former members of President Assad's intelligence agency were arrested in Germany for allegedly participating in the abuse of captive dissidents. A third Syrian national was apprehended in Paris.

Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. navigate getting "woke" together on their first collaboration.

Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., says there isn't any need for women to seek medically necessary abortions, because of modern technology and science.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York is trying to decide whether to adopt an outer coat of off-gray, or one of very pale yellow. The debate over the color differences is subtle, but the debate over the two colors is very robust.

Glen Weldon recommends the newly published Tolkien book, edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher. Set in the Elder Days of Middle Earth, the prequel is based on stories that appear in Unfinished Tales and reads, Weldon says, like classic Tolkien.

Don't dismiss R. Sikoryak's comic book sendups of the great books as mere parody. When he casts Ziggy as Candide or sets Crime And Punishment in Gotham, Sikoryak's clever strips illuminate the essences of both high and low.

Pelosi said the new acting speaker, Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., was behind an email asking her staff to remove their belongings from a workspace she had access to as a former speaker.

Assessor R. Keith Miller purchased Hilton Head property with employee which commissioners say violates policy.

An alienation of affection lawsuit filed this week against state House Speaker Tim Moore is prompting debate about whether North Carolina should still allow jilted spouses to sue.

Whole wheat, stone-ground, multi-grain. Have food labels got you confused? Joanne Slavin, a nutrition professor at the University of Minnesota, and David Ludwig, a pediatrician and obesity doctor at Boston Children's Hospital, discuss the meaning of "whole grain," and whether intact grains like wheat berries pack more nutritional punch than their ground-up counterparts, such as whole wheat flour.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Harris eulogized the 39th president at a U.S. Capitol Rotunda ceremony, and he will now lie in state until Thursday.

Roan Fields-Moffitt likes to explore wooded areas. On a damp and cloudy early afternoon in January, he rustled through leaves, climbed over fallen trees...

So many of the network's new prime-time series are like cafeteria casseroles: aggressively and intentionally bland. But late-night shows continue to offer spice in the form of biting humor.

Daniel talks to Leslie Savin, advertising critic for The Village Voice. She says that there is a new trend in t.v. advertising to convince viewers that they can assert their individuality by buying mass market products... Red Dog beer and Saab cars.

LESTER GRAHAM OF MEMBER STATION KWMU IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI REPORTS ON THE POTENTIAL GRAIN AND CORN-PRODUCTS SHORTAGES THIS FALL AS A RESULT OF THIS SPRING'S CONTANT RAINS IN THE MIDWEST.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet Christopher Merrill about his new ook, "The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee." Milkweed Editions, 1995) Merrill gives a poet's perspective on the conflict and ts by-product: thousands of refugees.

SIMON/SURVEY: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH JACKIE BIVANS, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AT WALKERGROUP/CNI, A RETAIL CONSULTING FIRM THAT RECENTLY FOUND THAT CERTAIN MOVIES...AND CERTAIN STARS...SELL SOME HARD-TO-EXPLAIN PRODUCTS IN MALLS WHERE THEY'RE SHOWING

Liane Hansen speaks with William Greaves, an African-American ctor and movie producer, about the race films of the 1930s and 40s, which were reaction to the negative stereotypes of blacks in early Hollywood productions

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. SCOTT TALKS WITH THEATER DIRECTOR JERRY STROPNICKY AND THE CAST OF THE BLOOMSBURG THEATER ENSEMBLE'S PRODUCTION OF "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"...A NEW PLAY WHICH INCORPORATES 200 YEARS OF LETTERS TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS.