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Officials say the recall was prompted after a random sample tested positive for the organism listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have been reported, the FDA says.

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote of no confidence. President Trump threatens a shutdown if he doesn't get the budget for a border wall. And Michael Flynn's lawyers ask for leniency.

Democrats agreed to a significant — but slimmed down — proposal to help lower prescription drug prices, bringing aboard notable holdouts on the measure, including Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

The Trump administration's rollback of a major clean water rule is sure to face legal challenges.

Steve Inskeep talks to Sebastian Payne of the Financial Times about the latest developments on Brexit and the options for British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is facing a no confidence vote.

The first big electoral night of the Biden presidency provided a bad omen for Democrats in 2022, and Republicans may have found a way to campaign in the post-Trump era.

The time long awaited by gun-rights advocates has come, as the conservative court examines how far a state may go in regulating an individual's right to carry a gun outside the home.

The GOP wins the governor's mansion in Virginia. Kids ages 5-11 can now get shots to protect them from COVID-19. The Supreme Court hears the first major gun rights case in more than a decade.

The president is back from Scotland, where he urged other leaders to do more to curb climate change. He's returning to a fight among Democrats over legislation that includes his own climate measures.

A fourth professor has come forward in a controversy at the University of Florida involving free speech, academic freedom and the right of faculty members to testify in lawsuits against the state.

The Biden administration wants to crack down on climate-warming methane emissions. Success will depend on a growing new industry in high-tech ways to detect methane leaks.

You wouldn't expect a Twitter thread about shipping logistics to go viral, but that's what happened recently to Ryan Petersen, the founder of the freight-forwarding tech company Flexport.

The NWFL lasted from the mid-1970s to 1988, when it shuttered and the teams broke apart. A new book, Hail Mary, explores the league's origins and the problems that brought it to an end.

On Monday, documents that detail the thoughts of China's leaders during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square will be released to the public. Lisa Simeone talks with Andrew Nathan, a political scientist at Columbia University in New York. Nathan is the main editor of the soon to be published "Tiananmen Papers."

Movies and sports aren't the only industries with star appeal. Academia has its shining heroes as well. NPR's Julia Mitric reports on the sightings of star scholars at the Modern Language Association's annual meeting.

Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland fuses the music of America and South Africa.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on McDonald's latest attempts to use technology to speed up their service.

With Singapore's kids scoring number one on international math tests, an Oregon company is making a business out of importing Singaporean textbooks. Robert Smith reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Commentator Paul Eisenstein about the Detroit Auto Show, which opens this week. Concept cars are the big attraction this year. Ford is featuring two models, which incorporate designs from the past: the Thunderbird and the Forty-Nine. Daimler-Chrysler is unveiling the Liberty, a new small sport utility vehicle.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Tom Rankin, Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and co-director of the new documentary Indivisible. The project explores how individuals come together to solve problems in their communities. It introduces a range of compelling people and subjects, including a midwifery practice in Stony Brook, New York; an organization in Texas which helps low income Mexican Americans buy their own homes; and Youthline, a San Francisco program that trains young people to offer peer advice and counseling on a toll-free phone service. Indivisible was produced by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. The website is www.indivisible.org

The story behind the ground breaking hit from the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts and Wayne Slater, Austin Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News, about the news of the week. Roberts talks about Washington happenings. Slater has George W. Bush analysis.

Commentator Vincent Hsia brings his personal perspective on immigration and assimilation in the United States.

Confirmation hearings will begin next week for John Ashcroft, the former senator from Missouri whom George W. Bush has nominated as his attorney general. Liberal groups who oppose Ashcroft have been vocal since his nomination was announced. But Ashcroft's supporters have been getting organized as well. NPR's David Welna reports on how the battle is taking shape.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from The Netherlands that the defense began its summation today in the trial of two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The defense attorneys had called only eight witnesses in the course of the eight-month trial in a special Scottish court, convened at Camp Zeist. In his closing argument, lawyer William Taylor tried to poke holes in the prosecution's case, saying the Crown had failed to prove his client Abdel Ali al-Megrahi was a Libyan agent who was working in concert with the co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The attorney again tried to shift the blame to a Palestinian group. Two hundred seventy people died in the 1988 bombing.