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On seminal Smiths recordings in the 1980s, guitarist Johnny Marr said, "Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player." Rourke had been ill with pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

Biomedical engineer Joe Dituri has broken the record for longest time spent living underwater without depressurization. He talks about what he's learned so far.

Three generations of O'Farrills are represented on this new album, reminding us what tradition is at heart: our ongoing conversation with those who came before us, and those who come after.

The case was brought by plaintiffs who said the social media company aided and abetted terrorism. Based on its opinion, the Supreme Court sent a related case involving Google back to the lower courts.

Threadbare demos on a new reissue of 1998's Overcome by Happiness illuminate Joe Pernice's songwriting paradox: Brill Building pop woven from homespun scruff, sarcastic but always sure-footed.

Matthew Dallek says the John Birch Society, which was active from the late '50s through the early '70s, propelled today's extremist takeover of the American right. His new book is Birchers.

President Biden heads to Japan for the G7 summit. An appeals court case could remove abortion pills from the U.S. market completely. Ukraine says it's made advances in the battle for Bakhmut.

Hosted by the former president, this documentary series puts a new spin on Terkel's influential 1974 book of interviews, cataloging the concerns of people on all levels of the economic scale.

The Philadelphia singer-songwriter reflects on sobriety, heartbreak and necessary growth in a honey-tinted sonic glow.

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with WNYC's Julia Longoria, host of the Supreme Court podcast More Perfect, on the launch of their new season.