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Resettling a single refugee family requires a huge effort, and after four years of neglect under the Trump administration, rebuilding the system will be difficult.

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan presents her nonfiction summer reading list — three true tales, plus one book of fiction she just couldn't resist.

Architect Witold Rybczynski is known for his books exploring the most basic questions of the man-made environment. His latest book is called Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville.

John Grisham says he could never have come up with the story that's chronicled in his first work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man. It's the tragic tale of Ron Williamson, a small-town sports hero from Oklahoma wrongly convicted of murder.

When book critic Maureen Corrigan was a kid, her family would pile into the car for trips to sites of historical interest. For Corrigan, summer has always been the season for traveling back to a bygone age — either by hitting the road or hitting the books.

A grassroots movement opposing privately run immigrant jails, which grew under former President Donald Trump, has continued and found a more receptive audience under President Biden.

The pop group took to the biggest little stage in New York City to record its Tiny Desk quarantine set.

Although they've been eligible for months, many North Carolina health systems are reporting only about two-thirds of health workers are vaccinated.

In the students' defense, Magdalen College's president says that being a college student is "sometimes about provoking the older generation. Looks like that isn't so hard to do these days."

The longtime coach of the Duke University men's basketball team is retiring. Mike Krzyzewski has led the Blue Devils for 41 season, and is the NCAA's winningest basketball coach.

Scott speaks with Tom Williamson, paleontologist at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Dr. Williamson, and his colleagues are trying to re-create the sound of a dinosaur.

aimed at preventing the federal government from regulating cigarettes and other tobacco products as addictive drugs. At issue is whether the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to do so. Four companies, R.J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, Lorillard, and Philip Morris will present their case to a federal court in Greensboro, North Carolina, beginning today.

As the number of Roman Catholics in the U-S has been growing, in the last fifteen years, the numbers of priests is dwindling. Some bishops have closed parishes or appointed one priest to serve two or more parishes. Noah visits St. Olaf parish near Williamsburg, Virginia. It's one of about 300 Roman Catholic parishes in the U-S that is led by a lay worker. Donna Young Whitley has been the pastoral coordinator of the parish since its establishment four years ago.

Scott talks with New Age guru Marianne Williamson, who defends her philosophy against attacks by the media in the wake of disclosures that First Lady Hillary Clinton has been consulting New Age psychologists and holding imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt.

PHILIP HILTS, correspondent on health and science policy for The New York Times. His new book is "Smoke Screen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up" (Addison-Wesley). HILTS first broke the story of the now-infamous Brown and Williamson tobacco papers, which revealed when tobacco executives first learned about the addictive nature of nicotine and the dangers of smoking. HILTS' stories for the New York Times led to Congressional hearings. Originally aired 5/

A jury in Jacksonville, Florida found the Brown and Williamson Tobacco company liable in a case of an ex-smoker with lung cancer. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

of Friday's Florida court decision against Brown and Williamson Tobacco that awarded $500,000 in damages to a former smoker

Susan reports on the Williamstown Theater Festival in western Massachusetts.

Last year's tournament was canceled outright for the first time in its history. Officials say thousands of spectators would pose too great a risk at this year's tourney.

The resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid sexual harassment accusations has brought dramatic change to the state's leadership. And New Yorkers have plenty of thoughts on what that means.