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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Scott Simon about the day the Ayatollah's plane landed in Tehran. Iran's economy is bad and at the same time, oil prices, which is a key part of the economy, are down. As a result of all this, some people are reevaluating where Iran goes next, says Inskeep who is reporting from Iran. The government holds lots of power, but Iranians are not the people they were 30 years ago.

In Lebanon, it's been the deadliest day of Israeli air strikes in almost 20 years. At least 356 people were killed, mostly in the south where Hezbollah has been trading attacks with Israel.

After the sudden death of his girlfriend Lynn Shelton in 2020, Maron was forced to grieve in isolation. He talks about finding humor — and lightness — in his new HBO special.

In Locking Up Our Own, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr. argues that African-American leaders helped shape policies that harmed black communities. Originally broadcast July 17, 2017.

One of Sanders' stats may be off, but it's true that low-income Americans vote in far smaller numbers than their higher-income counterparts.

January 1 is a common birthday in Pakistan and Afghanistan because 1/1 is an easy date for people to remember in cultures that don't follow Western standards of time.

Francis concludes his four-day visit to the region's only predominately Catholic country advocating for the poor and warning against the government's "insidious" family planning program.

NPR's Robert Siegel and Melissa Block read listener letters, including reaction to an interview about boatloads of migrants washing up on the Greek Island of Chios, and a Bob Mondello piece about good movies to cool you off on a hot summer's day.

When study participants who routinely got less than seven hours of sleep were coached to extend their sleep time, they also changed their diets, without being asked — taking in less sugar each day.

"For the seventh day in a row, there are no new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand," the Ministry of Health said on Friday.