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Saturday

Meet the people working on the holidays so you don't have to

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Sunday

Amazon is getting into health care. Will it actually make care more accessible?

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Saturday

Cher's once again trying something new: a Christmas album. An Le/Warner Records hide caption

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'It's freedom': Cher on singing, her mother and her first holiday album, 'Christmas'

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Saturday

A new drug is worsening the opioid crisis in Philadelphia

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Saturday

Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key on their new book about the history of sketch comedy

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Sunday

Rachel Harrison on her new horror novel 'Black Sheep'

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Sunday

The Library of Congress' latest addition is a guide to African American banjo music

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Sunday

How the brain processes music, with a little help from Pink Floyd

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Sunday

Saturday

Black Opry founder Holly G. is fighting for Black country music to be recognized

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Nicolle Horbath sings about the pandemic with a bossa nova twist

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Sunday

Bettye LaVette's new album is brimming with soulful confidence

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'Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares' profiles Freddy Krueger actor

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Sunday

'Killing It' onstage turns literal for these comics in Mike Bockoven's new novel

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Sunday

1,500 service members will be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border this week

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Sunday

Stephen Buoro on his comic novel 'The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa'

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Sunday

Streaming changed the Hollywood landscape. Now its writers are voting to go on strike

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Sunday

Rachel Eve Moulton on her horror novel 'The Insatiable Volt Sisters'

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Thursday

A 13-year-old receives his first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination. The FDA may soon authorize the vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. Shafkat Anowar/AP hide caption

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Some parents vaccinated against COVID are hesitant to get their children vaccinated

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Thursday

Monday

Stonewall Survives The Pandemic And Celebrates Another Pride Month

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Sunday

Dr. Lawrence Mass, who wrote the first article about AIDS in a U.S. publication, points to South Africa when reflecting on the legacy of AIDS denialism. The legacy, he says, is "the death — the preventable unnecessary deaths — of more of 330,000 people" there. Elias Williams for NPR hide caption

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Friday

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'It's A Sin' Brings A Lost Generation Of Gay Men To Life

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Tuesday

David Whitcomb stands surrounded by turn-of-the-century photographs and frames in Geneva, N.Y. David Whitcomb hide caption

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Trove Of Antique Portraits, Including 1 Of Susan B. Anthony, Found In Attic

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