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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sam Pope, an associate producer of the Holocaust documentary FINAL ACCOUNT, and Stephen Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation who helped with the project.

We look at President Biden's role in new — and still fragile — cease-fire between Israel and Gaza, as well as the near certain demise of the January 6 Commission.

With medical board exams postponed because of COVID-19, India's junior doctors have been thrust onto the front lines early. Many have seen more death & grief than they expected in an entire career.

Netflix releases another Marvel superhero series, Iron Fist. This one features a white martial arts expert who fights bad guys, most of whom are Asian. After successful shows like Jessica Jones, this one misses the mark.

In the 1950s and '60s, rock climber Royal Robbins put up big wall routes on cliffs in the Yosemite Valley that nobody had ever imagined. He also wrote influential books on climbing, and helped change rock climbing practices to be more environmentally sensitive. Robbins died on Tuesday at the age of 82.

We discuss just what is going on with all these no-hitters in the MLB, the start of NBA playoffs, and how the Summer Olympics will move ahead despite a pandemic-induced state of emergency in Tokyo.

Federal environmental regulations for lead in drinking water still leave room for concentrations high enough to pose a health hazard, critics say.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to producer Ian Brennan about the new album, We are an Island, but We are not Alone, which he produced with local musicians in the Comoros Islands.

The Biden administration has ambitious spending plans — ones that rely on taxpayers to pay their share. We look at a plan to modernize the IRS to make collecting those taxes possible.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the more than 200 people killed during the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.