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After spending a number of years writing screenplays for Hollywood, author T.R. Pearson is back writing novels. Pearson's latest work is Blue Ridge, but unlike his earlier books, the main character makes his way out of the rural south and into New York City. Tom Vitale speaks with Pearson about the new book.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Orville Schell, dean of the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He and other deans, journalists, and representatives of television networks have held meetings on improving the quality of T.V. news. Schell and other deans are worried that although T.V. news reaches a huge portion of the American audience, it's not doing its job in thoroughly informing the public.

President Trump has spent nearly two weeks outside of Washington, D.C., since the shutdown began on Oct. 1

While it's not exceptionally tall, the tree has a wide canopy. And it dates back to the era of Egypt's great pyramids.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with sports correspondent Tom Goldman about the FIFA investigation into the World Cup bidding process. On Thursday, the organization cleared Russia and Qatar of corruption.

Vice President Harris was in Guatemala on Monday. Next she meets with Mexico's president — on the second leg of her trip to try to address the root cause of Central American migration to the U.S.

Chinese characters don't readily work with the English-centric Internet. The New Republic's Chris Beam tells NPR's Scott Simon that the Chinese use numbers that when pronounced, sound like words.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that dinosaur bone hunter Paul Sereno today unveiled his latest finds, including the skeleton of a huge meat-eating dinosaur that once roamed what is now Africa. Sereno and his colleagues unearthed the remains while hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara. The creature is giving scientists a better picture of dinosaur evolution.

Air quality in Southern California is dangerously bad because of the fires. Our reporter set out to build an air filter -- in a style the EPA praised, using only things she already had at home.

The talks with North Korean officials Thursday were for planning the next summit, but the meeting was postponed over scheduling conflicts. President Trump now says he's in no rush.