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Foreign reporters' access to Syria is severely restricted, but this week, a group of Western journalists has been invited to hear the Assad regime's point of view. NPR's Peter Kenyon is among them.

Founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi and funded by royalties from his popular operas, Casa Verdi in Milan opened a century ago as a home for opera musicians in their golden years.

David Greene talks to former U.S. ambassador to China Max Baucus about North Korea's aggressive tone against the U.S. Pyongyang called President Trump's threats against the north a load of nonsense.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, about what exactly it means to be living paycheck to paycheck and how many Americans are doing so.

NPR's David Greene talks to Houston Public Media's Davis Land about reports of a gunman at a high school in Texas. The school was put on lockdown. A suspect is in custody, local media say.

North Korea is having second thoughts about meeting with President Trump next month. Comments by the administration's national security adviser could be to blame.

The school shooting this week in Georgia raises many questions about how the criminal justice system handles cases where minors commit capital crimes.

Director James Comey said the emails could be pertinent to the probe of Hillary Clinton's private server. It's unclear whether the emails are new or copies of material already reviewed by the FBI.

In his new book, statistician Ben Blatt loads thousands of books, new and old, into a vast database and uncovers intriguing patterns in how our favorite authors write.

As cease-fire negotiators talk, soldiers and militants keep fighting. Israeli warplanes pound Gaza's southernmost city Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians have sought refuge.