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Scott Simon speaks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the case of Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who disappeared after accusing a former vice premier of China of sexual assault.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tom Maddocks of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, about the atmosphere at the Australian Open without defending champion Novak Djokovic.

COVID-related sickouts, coupled with bad weather, are creating a nightmare scenario for some airlines and passengers.

Hawaii is experiencing a major winter storm. More than 14 inches of rain has already fallen, and the power is out in parts of Honolulu. Flooding is a concern across the state.

Many people living along the northern Israeli border have fled to shelters. In one shelter, a group of older Russian émigrés live underground as Hezbollah rockets pepper their region.

Film producer Ismail Merchant died Wednesday after a long illness. Merchant, the man who raised the money to get Merchant-Ivory films made, worked with director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to create gorgeous-looking literary adaptations made on a shoestring. The team's films included A Room With A View, The Remains of the Day and Howard's End.

The Supreme Court rules that prison inmates have a constitutional right to not be put in Supermax prisons if it's not necessary. Supermax is an extremely restricted environment, with virtually no human contact. The High Court has approved Ohio's program of reviews for deciding whether a given inmate's crime is serious enough to merit such restrictive confinement.

In Tennessee, church attendees share their reactions to last week's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

A grand jury has accused Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates with seditious conpsiracy tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the Captiol.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dr. Dannagal Young, professor of communications and political science at the University of Delaware, about how media coverage of gun violence affects news consumers.