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An Israeli radio station is broadcasting messages and songs to hostages in Gaza, and a Palestinian station in the West Bank is broadcasting families' messages to relatives recently jailed in Israel.

Larry Munch is the proprietor of Munch’s Sundries & Restaurant, a longtime famous hangout and food port in south St. Petersburg.It didn’t start out that…

Nate Chinen remembers Newport Jazz impresario George Wein, who helped create the modern music festival but never lost his appetite for listening in small rooms and connecting at a human scale.

Dikla Gal-Ed, a 29-year-old Jewish settler, is helping her family pack for the move out of Gush Katif. She talks about the difficult process of preparing to leave and her frustration with the decision to withdraw.

The Secret Service director was on Capitol Hill Monday. For nearly five hours, she faced questions from House lawmakers demanding answers about the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

If you need to accomplish anything major in the near future, stay away from The Woman in White. This engaging crime novel will have you shunning friends and forgetting to reapply sunscreen.

The American poet Wallace Stevens died 50 years ago this year. Commentator Jay Keyser says Stevens wrote the best short poem in the English language, "The Snow Man." Stevens marries what the poem is about with the way that it is built.

Caan's memorable screen appearances included Brian's Song, The Godfather, Misery and Elf.

NPR's Lilly Quiroz brings us a postcard from Guatemala about Lake Atitlán, considered to be one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.

Texas educator and musician Belle Ortiz has died. She played a vital role in bringing mariachi music out of the night clubs and into public schools across Texas as a musical discipline.

In Joyce Carol Oates' latest novel, apparitions haunt the streets of sleepy 1905 Princeton, N.J. Oates says she wanted to explore the hypocrisy of wealthy white America in that era with her portrayal of a town where the denial of social and racial injustice produces monsters.

Sykes has sung lieder and opera arias, jazz, and many other genres, but this Saturday and Sunday, he will be singing songs he grew up hearing at home.

Danish director Lone Scherfig is making a name for herself as a female director whose movies tend to focus on human relationships. "I like to see losers win," she says. Her latest film, One Day, chronicles a day in the life of two characters over the course of 20 years.

Sykes has sung lieder and opera arias, jazz, and many other genres, but this Saturday and Sunday, he will be singing songs he grew up hearing at home.

Tom Clancy built his fascination with military hardware and history into a best-selling career writing thrillers — beginning in 1984 with The Hunt for Red October. His books were turned into Hollywood blockbusters and popular video games. NPR's Lynn Neary has a remembrance of Clancy, who died this week at 66.

Supreme Court adopts its first code of ethics. Israel says it has evidence of a Hamas military compound beneath a Gaza hospital. A U.S. government report on climate change stands to influence policy.

The number of veterans in the VA healthcare system who are 70 or older is expected to grow 30 percent in the next eight years.

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Since 2003, the StoryCorps project has recorded 15,000 personal conversations between family members and friends. A new book chronicles some of the stories, and two participants describe what it was like to share their private stories with millions of radio listeners.

The folk-blues singer describes her creative process as "receiving" a song. "It usually starts with one voice," she says, "And as soon as I hear one, then 500 more come in and surround it."

After Forrest Gump became a best-seller, Winston Groom says he ran out of good ideas for novels — until now. His new book, El Paso, is set during the Mexican Revolution.

In his new book, Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz offers an insider's account of the forces that shaped the political strategies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and the flaws and misfires that led to Romney's defeat. He discusses the 2012 campaign and the future of the Republican Party.

Ann Powers says her infatuation with The Boss grew into adult respect for the strivers in his songs.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss about where U.S.-China relations are headed after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down over the weekend.