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Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the Navy's decision to convene a public court of inquiry to investigate the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine earlier this month. Nine passengers of the fishing boat are missing and presumed dead.

When former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic lost the presidential election last September, young people celebrated. His defeat was largely the result of a grassroots effort led by a group of mostly young people called "Otpor" or "Resistance. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with one of the members of Otpor, Slobodan Homen.

More than 900 Kurdish refugees are stranded on the coast of France. They paid thousands of dollars to smugglers who ran their boat aground and then abandoned the would-be immigrants. NPR's Sarah Chayes talks about the fate of the refugees and the experience of hiding in a small boat to escape one's homeland.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from the Gaza strip, where five months of fighting and Israeli-imposed control measures have left the Palestinian territories on the verge of economic collapse.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on former President Bill Clinton's defense of his pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

The founder of a support group for people who have caused accidental death or injury has some personal insight on the emotions stirred up by the killing of a cast member on the set of the movie Rust.

Frank speaks with NPR's Barbara Bradley about the investigations by Congress and a federal prosecutor in New York into the pardon of Marc Rich by former President Clinton. Rich was charged with tax evasion, to the tune of 48 million dollars. He fled the country, and has been a fugitive ever since. Clinton defends his actions in a piece in today's New York Times.

The head of the office of Federal Student Aid, Richard Cordray, spoke with lawmakers about loan forgiveness and a resumption of student loan repayments after the pandemic pause.

Frank talks to writer and former priest James Carroll, whose new book, Constantine's Sword; The Church and the Jews, explores the role of the Catholic church in anti-Semitism. From gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus, to Emperor Constantine's transformation of the cross into a sword, and through the Holocaust, Carroll illustrates the points of conflict -- and common ground -- between Jews and Catholics. (The book is published by Houghton Mifflin, Co.)

The White House will not hold Halloween its traditional Halloween festivities this year because President Biden and the first lady Jill Biden will be traveling overseas.