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  • Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, "The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take."
    Fresh Air Weekend: Edward Snowden; Journalist Andrea Mitchell
    Snowden speaks about his decision to share top-secret intelligence documents with journalists in 2013. Justin Chang reviews Ad Astra. Mitchell says that asking tough questions is "very empowering."
  • Navy Calls Deadly Crashes 'Preventable'
    The Navy's top officer, Adm. John Richardson, said an investigation has concluded that two destroyer accidents were largely the result of crews lacking the proper training to drive their ships.
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    Bank Of America Lowest Among Peers In Customer Satisfaction Index
    Bank of America remains in last place among big banks in a widely watched measure of customer satisfaction, and is the only one that has yet to return to…
  • Tragedy, Thy Name Is A Busted Bracket
    Each year, countless brackets are upended by upsets in the men's NCAA basketball tournament. We hear laments from those whose brackets were busted within hours of the first full day of play.
  • January 2011: Boys in the Andar district of Afghanistan gathered to collect candy from passing U.S. Army soldiers. Now, there are reports from that area of locals rising up against the Taliban.
    As Last Surge Troops Leave, Some Afghans Take Up Arms Against Taliban
    The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is comparing an uprising against Taliban rule in Andar, Afghanistan, to the "Anbar Awakening" in Iraq that helped turn the tide against al-Qaida in that nation.
  • Bobbie Gentry rarely gave interviews and disappeared from public life in the mid-1970s.
    The Confounding, Enigmatic 'Ode To Billie Joe'
    Tuesday is June 3, a date memorialized in a 1967 hit by singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. Even with a suicide in the first verse, the song helped Gentry bump the Beatles off the top of the charts.
  • A man walks by an American International Group (AIG) building in 2009.
    Watchdog Says Treasury OK'd Excessive Executive Pay At Bailed-Out Firms
    All but one of 69 top employees at three bailed-out companies had pay packages worth at least $1 million. The Treasury defended its approval, saying the report was riddled with errors.
  • Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic) is the enforcer for a Serbian drug cartel that controls business in Sweden, and one of three characters who clash in <em>Easy Money</em>.
    Whatever The Country, No Such Thing As 'Easy Money'
    A Chilean, a Swede and a Serbian cartel collide in a taut actioner set amid the Swedish drug trade. Kenneth Turan says the impressive skills of director Daniel Espinosa, who has a gift for building audience tension, make for a great summer thriller. (Recommended)
  • 'I Function Off Fear,' Said Director Tony Scott, Who Died Sunday
    Best known for Top Gun and other action movies, Scott was 68. Witnesses say he jumped from a bridge in Los Angeles County. Law enforcement sources tell news outlets that a suicide note has been found.
  • Rescue workers walk beside the rubble as rescue efforts continue where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed Thursday in Surfside, Fla.
    The Mayor Of Surfside, Fla., Says The Building Collapse Reminds Him Of 9/11
    Mayor Charles Burkett tells NPR that video of the collapse shows that "it was obvious that these buildings just sort of came straight down on top of each other."
  • The vial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The White House says Thursday that the U.S. will commit 17 million additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union.
    United States commits another 17 million COVID vaccine doses to the African Union
    The U.S. donation from its domestic supplies comes on top of the 50 million doses previously donated to Africa, which world health officials say is 500 million doses short of its goal.
  • 2003 Caldecott, Newbery Book Medals Announced
    In top awards given annually to children's book writers and illustrators, Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi received the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. And My Friend Rabbit, illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann, received the Caldecott Medal, for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
  • What was once known as a 'biggie' drink at Wendy's is now just a 'medium.' Soft drinks now come in small, medium and large sizes only. The 42-ounce large is equal to three-and-a-half cans of soda.
    Wendy's 'Biggie' Portion Gone in Name Only
    Wendy's is doing away with its "biggie" and "great biggie" portion names. But that doesn't mean sizes are getting smaller. A medium drink is 32 ounces, and a large tops out at 42 ounces. Nutritionists see this new, larger soft drink as a setback in the battle against obesity.
  • The readers of <em>Guitar Player </em>magazine recently named Joe Robinson "Best New Talent."
    Joe Robinson: Self-Taught Guitar Virtuoso
    At just 19 years old, Australian guitarist Joe Robinson has accomplished what most musicians can only dream of. He recorded his first CD at age 14, and won first place on Australia's Got Talent at 17. The following year he took the top title at the World Championships of Performing Arts.
  • Live Concert Ticket Prices on the Rise
    Simon & Garfunkel, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Elton John, KISS, Aerosmith, Cher -- some of the biggest names in music are raking in the money on tour. Music critic Christian Bordal reports on why musicians are earning more money, even though fewer people are coming to see them.
  • Djokovic Out Of U.S. Open After Line Judge Gets Hit With Ball
    Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked player and the overwhelming favorite, was defaulted from his fourth-round match Sunday, after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball.
  • Bob Dylan's <em>Tempest</em> features 10 new songs with many feisty, baffling, sometimes beautiful moments.
    Fresh Air Weekend: Andrew Rannells, Bob Dylan
    Andrew Rannells says he didn't want to "dumb down" his role in the new TV series The New Normal with "over-the-top, gay flash and sass." Critic Ken Tucker says that some of Tempest's songs are as precisely crafted as any Bob Dylan has written.
  • Psychiatrists Are Major Target for Drug-Maker Money
    http://66.225.205.104/102110-40jr.mp3Earlier this week, NPR and ProPublica released a database showing the flow of money from seven top drug makers to the…
  • Psychiatrists Are Major Target for Drug-Maker Money
    http://66.225.205.104/102110-40jr.mp3Earlier this week, NPR and ProPublica released a database showing the flow of money from seven top drug makers to the…
  • Omer Avital's Band Of The East: Live From 92Y Tribeca
    He came to New York in the early '90s and became a top-notch jazz musician. Then he went back to Israeli to study the Middle Eastern musics of his ancestry. Now, the bassist surfaces all of it in his winding, funky compositions, performed live in downtown Manhattan.
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