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Patricia Lockwood's scabrous memoir of growing up with a married Catholic priest for a father is a little overreliant on quirky family details, but scorching in its approach to the Catholic Church.

The road normally carries nearly 250,000 vehicles a day. Officials say it'll be ready for rush hour on Monday, more than five weeks ahead of schedule.

The FBI director's firing has sparked new calls for an independent probe into Russia's election hacking and possible ties to the Trump campaign. Here are the shapes such an investigation could take.

The reissued album features the sound of the South African musician once known as Dollar Brand. Critic Kevin Whitehead says: "When Abdullah got a-rumbling, his piano was like a force of nature."

George Terwilliger was the deputy attorney general under President George H. W. Bush. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Terwilliger about why he was critical of some of James Comey's past public statements and thinks replacing him as FBI director was the right move.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein played a key role in the firing of FBI director James Comey. Rosenstein is a long-time prosecutor who's served in Republican and Democratic administrations.

President Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey is reverberating on Capitol Hill. Democrats are seizing on this move as evidence the Russia investigation needs an independent prosecutor.

President Trump meets with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in Washington, D.C., the day after he fired the head of the FBI.

President Trump says he fired FBI Director James Comey because he "wasn't doing a good job." NPR takes a look at what was behind the decision and how the White House is handling the political fallout.

The second largest Native American city in North America may have been in Kansas. In 1601, a group of Spanish conquistadors stumbled on a vast city. By the time French explorers showed up in the area a century later, the inhabitants had been decimated by European diseases and the city was gone. It's in Arkansas City, Kansas, where locals had been pulling "literally tons" of artifacts from plowed fields for years. But it wasn't until a high school kid with a metal detector found a Spanish cannon shot, that a local archaeologist knew he had a match.