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Fall of Giants is the latest doorstop from author Ken Follett. The massive tome is the first in a three-part series that follows five families through the tumultuous events of the 20th century.

About two years ago, commentator Darcy Wakefield was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, at age 33. A few months later, she wrote a commentary about running — and losing her ability to do it. Since then, her disease has progressed, sometimes in ways she didn't anticipate. Her sister Betsy reads this commentary for her. Wakefield has just released a book, I Remember Running.

Author and law professor Stephen Carter started reading the novels of John le Carre in college and he hasn't stopped. After all these years, he says his favorite is still Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a Cold War spy story that demonstrates le Carre's marvelous craftsmanship.

President-elect Donald Trump is scrambling to fill a Cabinet and an administration in the next 65 days. The transition is off to a chaotic start.

Initially, the CIA was suspicious of Soviet aviation expert Adolf Tolkachev. But he earned the agency's trust — and provided blueprints, documents and plans that were crucial to the U.S.

Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.

The U.S. will face the Netherlands in the Women's World Cup Final on Sunday. The U.S. women are the defending champs and looking to secure their fourth World Cup title.

Seed companies looking to create hybrid corn use a labor force of mostly teens to manually detassle corn. A wet spring pushed back planting this year, so the teens may need to return to school.

Sudan's ruling military junta and the pro-democracy movement that topped the long-time ruler have agreed to share power. Protest leaders celebrated the agreement as a victory.

The 2021 SXSW Music Festival was an all-digital affair — which left All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen with lots of streaming concerts to watch. He picks standouts from the 130 shows he saw.

Online payment startup Square and online dating giant Match have gone public. Their lackluster prices are the latest sign of Wall Street growing weary of tech hype and multibillion-dollar "unicorns."

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Murray Hiebert, senior associate of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the ongoing crisis in Myanmar.

Chinese legislators in Beijing are set to overhaul Hong Kong's elections systems. Once semi-autonomous, mainland China has curtailed freedoms in Hong Kong.

Pope Francis starts a four-day visit to Iraq on Friday. It's the first such papal visit. The goal is to strengthen local Christian communities and build dialogue with Muslims.

A steady drip of revelations in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal has called into question James Murdoch's testimony before a parliamentary committee in July. Murdoch has been asked back to clarify the discrepancies.

The Stanford Cardinal won its third NCAA Division 1 Women's Basketball championship and the first since 1992. The top-seeded Stanford team beat the Arizona Wildcats 54-53 in a thrilling final.

It's been 50 years since the U.S. and China engaged in "Ping Pong Diplomacy" - opening dialogue by having teams compete in the table top games.

In a struggle over how gun crimes are handled in D.C., federal prosecutors say they need room to bring charges in federal court — advocates say it's a civil rights issue, driving mass incarceration.

1.5 trillion dollars for next year's budget, plus a 2.3 trillion dollar infrastructure plan: President Joe Biden's asking Congress for a lot of money to further his ambition agenda.

As President Biden prepares to roll out a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan focused on green energy, he's working to frame the measure around jobs — not just addressing climate change.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Minnesota state Rep. Esther Agbaje about how the killing of Daunte Wright in the midst of the Chauvin Trial is affecting her constituents.

Would you trust a robot to escort you out of a burning building? Maybe you shouldn't. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with roboticist Paul Robinette, lead author of the Georgia Tech study, "Overtrust of Robots in Emergency Evacuation Scenarios."

On day five of Derek Chauvin's murder trial, the Minneapolis Police Department's most senior officer testified that the way Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck was "totally unnecessary."

The CDC today issued a declaration on its website that racism is a threat to public health. The assertion is a shift for the agency and one which detractors both in and out of the CDC have called for.

President Biden announced a number of executive actions intended to curb what he called an "epidemic" of gun deaths and injuries in America, and pressed Congress to also act.