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Filmmaker Paul Morrissey, best known for his avant-garde collaborations with Andy Warhol, died this week in New York at age 86. The pair made low-budget, provocative films in the 1960s and '70s.

Writer Katherine Heiny has published her first collection of short stories, Single, Carefree, Mellow.

The drills came after Beijing expressed anger at U.S. arms sales, and a statement by Japan's prime minister saying its military could get involved if China were to take action against Taiwan.

Firefighters, troops and volunteers have been working for the past two months to put out some of the worst blazes in the country's recent history.

The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill.

Scott Simon talks with Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the conservative website The Dispatch, about former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel's very brief stint at NBC.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with earthquake scientist Judith Hubbard of Cornell University about the science behind the multiple earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan and northern California Wednesday.

Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says, "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."

Kravitz's memoir follows his childhood and early career. Still touring in his 50s, Kravitz says, "I'm going to continue doing this as long as I can." Originally broadcast Oct. 6, 2020.

Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed explores how slavery is — and isn't — taught. And Above Ground includes poems to his children about what their ancestors endured and escaped. He spoke with Fresh Air in 2021 and 2023.