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Israel and Iran exchanged fire early Monday, escalating tensions and raising fears the conflict could pull the region back into a full-scale war.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Randa Slim of the Stimson Center about how the latest round of retaliatory strikes from Iran and Israel could affect the peace talks between the U.S. and Tehran.
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Pope Leo XIV is in Spain, calling for an end to political polarization on his first papal visit to the country in 15 years.
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More than 40 million adults in the U.S. ages 50 and older have osteopenia, or low bone density. An FDA-approved wearable vibration device is giving some women a tool that could slow that loss. -
Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in retaliatory strikes, Trump walked out of an interview after being pressed on election fraud claims, ebola outbreak is spreading at alarming rate.
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The 79th Annual Tony Awards celebrated the best of Broadway on Sunday. Jeff Lunden breaks down the results of Broadway's biggest night.
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Harpo Marx -- the "silent" Marx brother -- can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Josef Palermo, an artist and curator, about his tenure at the Kennedy Center and what its future might hold. -
There was a time when scandals were a death knell for political careers. But today, they're far from being career enders. -
China's President Xi Jinping is in North Korea, his first trip in seven years, in a bid to reassert China's influence in the region.
