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Phyllis Fischer, a 40-year-old wife and mother, is drawn into a liberating relationship with a much younger man. She soon realizes that perhaps she wasn't so content as she thought.

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

A guilty verdict in the months-long "Grim Sleeper" serial killer trial has brought some closure to many families of the victims. But community leaders in south Los Angeles are pressing forward with pressuring police to investigate at least 35 other possible murders.

Iraq's Prime Minister has called for an independent Iraqi investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl and the murder her family, reportedly at the hands of U.S. troops in the town of Mahmoudiya. The call for the investigation comes as it was revealed that the girl is a minor -- 14 or 15 years old.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Darius Pridgen, the president of the Buffalo Common Council and a local pastor, about Saturday's mass shooting that killed 10 people.

Across the country, theaters and civic organizations commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine school shootings by presenting readings of eight short plays by teenagers.

High-profile Washington, D.C. politicians are testing positive for the coronavirus in a reminder that the pandemic is far from over.

Steve Inskeep talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan about the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis and who might make the U.S. Olympic team. Top skater Michelle Kwan could not compete this year, due to an injury.

For the Perry siblings of Tupelo, Miss. — ages 9, 14 and 16 — making music involves making unique instruments from car parts. The young family band with astonishingly mature blues chops demonstrates its craft in NPR's Studio 4A.

Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are hoping a wave of newly-motivated activists will turn out this year to override an abortion ban and put broad reproductive rights in the state constitution.