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  • Joshua Powell left the group facing claims of sexual harassment and improper spending. In Inside the NRA, he calls for gun reforms — and confirms the harshest criticisms against the group.
  • General Motors has recalled 29 million autos in North America this year. Dealers replacing the faulty parts aren't just fixing cars. They're repairing customers' relationships with the automaker.
  • We asked people to send us their personal soundtracks — songs that are special to them — and to tell us why. The songs — and the stories — are surprisingly revealing.
  • Time magazine reporter W.J. Hennigan embedded with workers responsible for caring for the bodies of some 20,000 New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19. "It's a haunting thing," he says.
  • Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and we're looking back at albums that changed the game. Today, it's the group that took a shoestring DIY approach to creating horrorcore: Three 6 Mafia.
  • NPR's David Kestenbaum examines allegations that two major cultural anthropologists brought social and political havoc - and even deaths - to a tribe of South American Indians - in the process of studying them. The charges are made in an upcoming book: Darkness in Eldorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, by Patrick Tierney. If it's true, it is a major scientific and human rights scandal. If it is *not* true, then that's a different kind of scandal. NOTE: For more information about The Ax Fight or for any of the other 22 films in the Asch/Chagnon Yanomamo Series contact: Documentary Educational Resources, 1-800-569-6621 or email: docued@der.org. The movie soundtrack in the piece was recorded courtesy of : Human Studies Film Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
  • It's being called a landmark ruling in Australia, where delayed film release dates are blamed for helping create one of the highest rates of Web piracy in the world.
  • NPR uncovered new allegations of sexual harassment against a former top adviser to the U.S. ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, and new questions about whether Garcetti lied under oath.
  • Google is expanding its footprint in New York City, pledging to add jobs and spend $1 billion on a new campus. It's the latest example of a Silicon Valley giant branching out in an influential city.
  • NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens. He helped negotiate Thursday's prisoner swap — one of the largest since the end of the Cold War.
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