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NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the largest ritual gathering ever... about 18 million people converged on the town of Allahabad on the Ganges river for what one participant called "the spiritual jackpot." This festival is held every six years, but this will be the last one this century and it fell on Monday, which is a lucky day for Hindus, so there was a record turnout.

Linda Gradstein reports from Tel Aviv on the bombing at a busy intersection that left at least a dozen people dead and more than 100 wounded. This is the fourth suicide bombing in 8 days. Splinters groups of the Islamist extremist organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the first two attacks and reportedly for the third.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russian President Yeltsin has declared the end of the hostage crisis in southern Russia. Nine days ago, Chechen rebels took a hundred people hostage. Today, Yeltsin claimed all the rebel Chechens are dead and most of the hostages have been rescued.

Linda talks with George Yapko (YAWP-koh), a cook at Pacers Restaurant in Euclid, Ohio, about the Memorial Day festivities at "America's Largest Outdoor Barbecue." being held this weekend in Cleveland. An estimated 126 thousand people are expected to attend. Restaurants from as far away as Sydney, Australia are competing to acquire the title of "Best Barbecue."

Commentator John Rosenthal recalls going to a lot of weddings in the 60's-- thats when he first got started as a photographer and always offered to take the pictures for free-- He notes the strange reasons people decided to hook up in those days and how fleeting some of the marriages were.

Police identified a 35-year-old man they believed was responsible for attacking a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

About 5 percent of people in the U.S. suffer from the form of depression brought on by the dark days of winter.

Wisconsin officials reported the largest single-day increase in COVID-19-related deaths on Wednesday. Twenty-two people died, bringing the total to 539…

After two of her classmates took their lives, MIT freshman Isabel "Izzy" Lloyd made wristbands to promote compassionate outreach on campus. The white bands say TMAYD, for Tell Me About Your Day.

Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — that enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they had been freed. This news came two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.