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Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 96th birthday and has been honored with her likeness as a Barbie doll. The Platinum Jubiliee doll celebrates the queen's 70 years on throne.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo about assuming her new role as editor-in-chief at JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. J. Randall Pearce was a popular small town dentist who also served in disaster mortuary response after the 9/11 attacks. He lost his life to COVID-19 in December of 2020.

Elon Musk has been in headlines for trying to buy Twitter, but one Harvard historian says his brand of capitalism goes back to his teen years and a particular reading of science fiction stories.

Elon Musk has been in headlines for trying to buy Twitter. NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and host of the podcast Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket about the billionaire.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune about the child welfare workers who are leaving their jobs over state orders to investigate the families of trans kids.

All week, the world's attention has been focused on the death and destruction that's been discovered in towns north of Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew. One of those towns: Borodyanka.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Artem Chapeye, author of the book The Ukraine, who is currently serving as a private in the army fighting for Ukraine.

Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.

Misha Smetana lives in Kyiv, and has stayed there throughout Russian attacks on Ukraine. He tells NPR's Scott Detrow what that's been like, and about the communities forming between people who stayed.

In Ivano-Frankivsk, in the western part of Ukraine, a bakery that shuttered for two weeks during the war has resumed business — and even employs Ukrainians displaced from other parts of the country.

Though the city still feels empty, people are slowly starting to return to Kyiv. Signs of war are everywhere in the form of sandbags and big steel and concrete barricades in the streets.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Douglas Stuart about his latest book Young Mungo, centers on a romance between two teenage boys: one Protestant, one Catholic.

Some people who fled Kyiv because of the war in Ukraine are starting to return. At the train station, they share their reasons for returning and fears about the future.

Once war began in Ukraine, COVID ceased being the top-level medical concern. NPR's Scott Detrow spent 24 hours with a doctor doing everything he can to help with a whole new overwhelming crisis.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Yulia Gorbunova, a researcher with Humans Rights Watch, about her reporting of alleged human rights violations in Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine.

The Wave of Lviv is a radio station known for pop music and banter. Since the war began in Ukraine, though, they've been working to balance their irreverent tone with news from the front lines.

Attorney and father Chris Gegwich died from COVID-19 in 2020. He is remembered by his wife, Michele Gegwich, for his brilliance, love of ska music and keen interest in dinosaurs.

Reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee has announced his retirement from music at the age of 45. But it's unclear whether that means he'll never perform or release music again.

NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Brooke Neubauer, who owns a non-profit that works to end hunger in Las Vegas, about how inflation and rising food prices have impacted food insecurity in her community.