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ESPN calls itself the "worldwide leader in sports," but there are few live sports to show. So it's scrambling to fill the time, offering diversions like cherry pit spitting and marble racing.

Kaouther Adimi's novel tells the real-life story of Edmond Charlot, the Algerian bookseller and publisher who witnessed his country's independence struggle — and famously discovered Albert Camus.

In his new book, The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, George Steinmetz offers a bird's-eye view of the mark humans have made on the global landscape.

Drew Garza welcomed the Biden White House lifting a ban on transgender recruits. But Garza and other would-be transgender recruits are waiting for the formal requirements and rules for their service.

Tony Hicks was a teen gang member when he killed Tariq Khamisa. At StoryCorps, Tariq's sister Tasreen tells Tony that meeting him 20 years later "made a lot of room in my heart for light to come in."

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Vitalii Bardetskyi, a Ukrainian DJ and music journalist, about a new compilation of music from that country called "Even the Forest Hums."

Denmark's last minister for Greenland says Britain once claimed right of first refusal over the territory — because of its proximity to Canada, which Britain once ruled.

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

This week, a new fellowship was announced that granted 20 jazz musicians of retirement age a gift of $100,000 each.

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.