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Music Interviews

Demi Lovato on taking the power back through a heavy new album, 'HOLY F***'

"We'll just bleep this interview to death," says Morning Edition host Leila Fadel ahead of her conversation with Demi Lovato about a harder-edged new album, HOLY F***.

A vehicle drives by an almond orchard in Firebaugh, Calif., last year. City manager Ben Gallegos told NPR he doesn't want small cities like his to be overlooked as California prepares for a potential megastorm, a weather event made more likely by climate change. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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This city manager wants California to prepare for a megastorm before it's too late

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Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983. DLL/AP hide caption

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How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

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Demi Lovato on taking the power back through a heavy new album, 'HOLY F***'

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The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performs at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday. Richard Termine hide caption

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Home is never far for the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, even when touring in the U.S.

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