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Dawnie Walton talks with NPR's Scott Simon about her debut novel, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, an oral history of a 20th century rock duo so detailed, you might forget it's fiction.

HBO's documentary on Tina Turner is presented as the 81-year-old singer's final word on her expansive life and career — a history she finds difficult to talk about.

In 1948, Cleveland's baseball team won the World Series. It wouldn't have made it without the team's first two Black players, and the team owner's willingness to hire them, says author Luke Epplin.

Bosnia-Herzegovina has become the main hub for migrants trying to reach wealthier European nations, a journey they call the "game." Among the risks: being beaten up and sent back by border police.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Jason Forshaw, an aerospace engineer at Astroscale, about ELSA-d, a machine used to clean up junk in space.

We discuss the highly anticipated games in March Madness, as well as the continued player-driven protest movement against the inequities in college basketball.

The gun used in the Boulder, Colorado mass killing looked like an assault-style rifle, but it's actually a pistol. That complicates the firearm definitions as lawmakers try to pass gun control laws.

Scott Simon recounts some of the lives lost to gun violence in the past weeks, in and out of the spotlight.

The bloodshed appeared to represent the deadliest day for the country since the military coup in February. It came as the military junta marked the annual Armed Forces Day holiday.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses 100-year-old wartime recipes with Lora Vogt of the National WWI Museum and Memorial.