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Legendary singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. He was best known for an island escapism brand of music and the song "Margaritaville."

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said he was discharged from his rehabilitation center in a Thursday statement, more than 50 days after hospitalization.

Trump said, referring to immigrants from Latin America to the U.S., "We can't take you. Our country is full." David Greene asks David Wessel, director of the Brookings Institution, how true that is.

Since emerging last year in the Middle East, a mysterious virus has infected at least 132 people and killed 58. But it's still unknown how people get infected. A genetic analysis now suggests that animals may have repeatedly infected people with the deadly virus.

John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl story is "about haves and have-nots," says one scholar, "and that story is getting increasingly urgent." The book was first published April 14, 1939.

Degan Ali, a Somali humanitarian, tells us about her organization's efforts to fight famine in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan.

Renee Montagne talks to two of Pakistan's most renowned literary voices — Mohsin Hamid and Ayesha Jalal — about this week's attack on a school by fundamentalist forces.

Steve Inskeep talks to Kristalina Georgieva, a European Union vice president, about the dire cost of the war in Syria and efforts to increase humanitarian assistance.

In northeastern Syria, Christians are mourning those killed by ISIS when the militants tore through a band of Assyrian villages a year ago. The towns were recaptured, but the community is scarred.

Getting people to change their health behaviors is hard. A cancer diagnosis may increase motivation to reduce risk, but it doesn't necessarily make the change easier.