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Poor air quality stemming from fires burning across Canada is again choking major American cities.

Finalists for the National Book Awards were announced Wednesday in Philadelphia. Some well-known authors, such as Christopher Hitchens and Edwidge Danticat, are nominated. But the list also includes several debut authors. Winners will be named in mid-November in New York City.

Texas is the country's largest emitter of global warming gases. But the state's political leaders say climate change isn't a problem and have blocked even minor efforts to address the issue. Now mayors of some of the biggest cities are taking the issue into their own hands.

How do immigrants to this country view the messy process of democracy? What would they like to bring home to their own countries? In the midst of the primary season, immigrants in New York City talk about their perceptions of the process and the problems.

The thoughtful pianist describes the joys and pitfalls of spending the past few years playing all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas in chronological order in 20 cities around the world. Hear his final Los Angeles performance of the sonatas, at Walt Disney Hall.

Dave Bing was sworn in as mayor of Detroit earlier this month. The NBA star-turned-businessman-turned-politician will have to draw from all of his years of experience to help this city, which is failing financially and is adrift politically.

A brutal wave of drug violence is ravaging cities near the U.S.-Mexico border, and governments of both countries pointed fingers at each other this week over who's to blame.

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A car driven by a suicide bomber explodes outside a U.S. base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing three Iraqis. In Baghdad, gunmen kill a senior member of Iraq's interior ministry. Several kidnappings of foreign workers are also reported. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.

Two recent deaths of New York City firefighters from 9/11-related illnesses brought the total to 343, matching the FDNY's death toll from 9/11.