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India's First Family Split By Rivalries

One family runs India's Congress Party. The party heads the coalition government and is battling to stay in power. Voting begins this week in India's general election, so the family is going around the country campaigning. But there's a family feud.

Then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in 2012. He says he struggled with communicating why he had to help the banks during the financial crisis.

For Geithner, Financial Crisis Was Like Landing A Burning Plane

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received mixed reviews of his performance during the financial crisis. In his new book, he says he did what was required to "keep the lights on."

<em>The Finkler Question</em> is one of six novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

'Finkler' Questions The Meaning Of Jewishness

The hero of this year's Booker Prize winner, The Finkler Question, is a non-Jew fascinated by Jewishness. For writer David Sax, these efforts to simulate Judaism — to take on a persona outside of one's own — offer a broader commentary on human experience.

Kathleen Turner stars as Joan Didion in Arena Stage's production of <em>The Year of Magical Thinking.</em>

'It's Very Lonely': Kathleen Turner Stars As Joan Didion In 'Magical Thinking'

Turner appears in a new production of The Year of Magical Thinking, based on Didion's 2005 memoir. In one year, Didion's daughter fell into a coma and her husband of 40 years had a fatal heart attack.

An island nations representative says COP26 failed to set actionable response plan

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Janine Felson, deputy head of the Belize Delegation for COP26 and advisor to the Alliance of Small Island States, about how negotiations went at COP26 in Glasgow.

Tracee Ellis Ross Can Hit The High Notes, Too

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Tracee Ellis Ross about starring in The High Note, a movie about an over-40 superstar singer navigating the music industry with her assistant, who has her own music dreams.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a campaign rally in Wausau, Wis., Sunday. The Wisconsin presidential primary is Tuesday.

Small Donors Power And Inspire The Sanders Campaign

Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $44 million in March, nearly all of it in tiny increments. Sanders says his fund-raising strategy guarantees independence from big-money interests.

A man using a mobile phone walks past an AT&T store, in June. <em>The New York Times</em> and ProPublica report that the telecom giant helped the NSA spy for decades.

Report: AT&T Had Long, 'Highly Collaborative' Partnership With NSA

The New York Times and ProPublica examined documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. They reveal an extensive relationship between the spy agency and the telecom giant.

Living Life with 'Grace and Elegant Treeness'

After being transplanted from a vibrant city life to the isolation of a small town, NPR listener and USA Weekend reader Ruth Kamps found solace in nature and inspiration in the pine tree growing outside her kitchen window.

Mars Ready for its Close-up

Throughout November, hundreds of people are lining up to peer through the telescope at Lowell Observatory in northern Arizona. What they'll see: Mars in close opposition with the Earth. This is the nearest the red planet has been to Earth since 2003. If you miss it this month, you'll have to wait until 2018 for such an incredible view. Sadie Babits has this postcard from the observatory.

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