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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele talk about the Texas Rangers' World Series victory, the series' historically low ratings, and a special play taking the NFL by storm.

Illustrator Edel Rodriguez fled Cuba with his family during the Mariel boatlift in 1980, a story he tells in his new graphic memoir, "Worm." He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about it.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, about how a veterinary sedative called Xylazine is worsening the country's opioid epidemic.

Cover your head and don't look up! Naturalists say this is a "mast year" in much of the country, when hardwood trees drop an overabundance of nuts.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to analyst Tahani Mustafa about the history of Gaza.

A new first in a career spanning 7 decades: Cher now has a Christmas album. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the singer/actress/icon about why she's finally recorded one.

The new House speaker sends a signal with an Israel aid package coupled with cuts to the IRS. It's a statement ahead of other pressing issues, like Ukraine aid and funding the government.

The story behind what's being billed as the last Beatles song, "Now and Then."

Israel has continued intense air and ground strikes in Gaza a month after the Hamas attack on southern Israel.

Dartmouth College has set up forums to educate students and the public about the Israel-Hamas conflict. NPR's Scott Simon talks to professors Susannah Heschell and Tarek El-Ariss, the organizers.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Indiana Hoosier's basketball coach Bobby Knight, who died this week at the age of 83.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Juliette Touma of the United Nations about deteriorating conditions for civilians inside Gaza.

With the World Series underway, NPR's Scott Simon talks to Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon and Scott McCaughey of The Baseball Project, about their latest baseball-themed album, "Grand Salami Time!"

The week in politics ushered in a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives — after 22 days — and more foreign policy challenges for the Biden administration.

NPR's Scott Simon visited the Inn of Chicago this week, where migrants are now being housed. The building is the same one his father died in 55 years ago.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Edward Carey about his novel, "Edith Holler," a macabre, yet funny tale about a peculiar little girl cursed to live in a theater in Norwich, England.

The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia has been dealing with an opioid crisis for years. A drug known as "tranq" is further complicating an already fraught situation.

All signs point toward a massive Israeli ground invasion of Gaza as the humanitarian crisis in the coastal territory grows more dire.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Emory University law professor Kay Levine about the legal purpose of an apology, like the ones required of those pleading guilty in the Georgia election interference case.

NPR's Scott Simon looks back and ahead at Israel's security challenges with Ami Ayalon. He's the former head of Israel's domestic intelligence service.