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His latest work sends a teenage boy and his family hurtling from Indiana into the Deep South of the mid-1970s. After a fire strips them of most of their possessions, horror, hilarity and high drama follow.

The theft of data contained on a portable hard drive from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee means that the Social Security numbers of more than 26 million veterans could now be in the hands of criminals. Noah Adams speaks with Mark Rasch, former head of computer crime investigations for the Justice Department, about how thieves and even foreign spies might be able to use that sensitive information.

Two-thirds of Americans oppose reversing abortion rights in a new poll. The accused Buffalo shooter appears in court Thursday. And Turkey opposes Finnish and Swedish bids to join NATO.

U.N. Security Council members, plus Germany, met Wednesday in London to try and reach agreement over how to approach Iran on its nuclear program. They failed to come to any comprehensive agreement, although there are signs that the European position may be moving closer to that of the U.S.

Naheed Phiroze Patel's debut novel Mirror Made of Rain is out in the U.S. this week.

The FBI revealed Sunday that Rep. William Jefferson, under investigation for bribery, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.

Massachusetts may soon have the first ruling by a state high court on what has become a growing dilemma for family courts: When divorced parents share custody, should one parent be allowed to move out of town with the kids?

Voters in Georgia go to the polls next week in a key primary election. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with voters in Gwinnett County, which leans toward Democratic candidates.

Golf's PGA Championship gets underway Thursday in Tula, Okla., but defending champ Phil Mickelson won't be there after he made inflammatory comments about a new Saudi-backed golf tour.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to writer Raquel Willis about Kendrick Lamar's song "Auntie Diaries" which has divided trans people with its story of how he came to accept his relatives' gender identities.