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Top officials from China and the U.S. met face-to-face in Alaska today. So far the talks have been tense, with both sides exchanging heated words.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marked the D-Day anniversary in Normandy this week. He spoke to NPR about the modernization of warfare and what AI might mean for the future.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Strange Days" the new action film directed by Katherine Bigelow.

Stock indexes rose nearly 5% after the market's worst day since 2008. The jump followed President Trump's call for a payroll tax cut and other steps to help the economy amid the coronavirus epidemic.

Writer WILLIAM MAXWELL has a collected his short stories in All the Days and Nights (Knopf) MAXWELL was fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1936-1976. He worked with such authors as J.D. Salinger, Jon Cheever, Jon Updike, Eudora Welty and scores of others. Jon Updike has said Maxwell's voice is "one of the wisest in American fiction. It is, as well, one of the kindest. (REBROADCAST from 3/

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified about the editorial that wrongly linked her political action committee's ad to a mass shooting. The paper's attorneys pressed her on her political rhetoric.

Stream performances from The Shacks, Mélat, Nikki Lane, Natalie Prass, Lo Moon, and Sunflower Bean.

Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals who will one day elect his successor.

A story for Valentine's Day from WBEZ's This American Life: "When You're In Love, the Whole World is Jewish." Host Ira Glass talks about the drama of trying to be "just friends" with an ex-girlfriend. The meaning of the title will be clear if you hear the piece. Tapes of This American Life can be purchased by calling 312-832-3357. (THIS PIECE ORIGINALLY AIRED ON TAL on 11/15/96)Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews the new Clint Eastwood film "Absolute Power."12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . .actress GENA ROWLANDS (jen-ah...roe-lenz). She spent three decades collaborating with her late husband John Cassevetes. Recently she worked with another Cassevetes -- her son Nick on the new film "Unhook the Stars." Also - a story for Valentine's Day from This American Life. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

2: Actor GRAHAM PAYN has written "My Life with Noel Coward" (Applause Books) with Barry Day. Theater legend Coward is the author of "Hay Fever," "Private Lives," and "Blithe Spirit." PAYN met him as a child, when he acted in Coward's "Words and Music" in 1932. The two were friends for thirty years until Coward's death in 1973.