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• Iran Admits To Shooting Down Plane

  NPR's Scott Simon talks with Abas Aslani, editor-in-chief of the Iran Front Page, about reaction inside Iran.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 5:25 am
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  France Has Changed — And So Has 'Les Misérables'

  This 2019 film is not another adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. It portrays life in a poor Paris suburb — where the police force is corrupt and residents are struggling just to get by.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 4:49 am
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  Opinion: We May Never Know The Toll Fires Have Taken On Australia's Wildlife

  A billion animals in Australia may have been impacted or killed by the wildfires so far, and some may have been pushed to the edge of extinction.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 4:48 am

• Aftershocks In Puerto Rico

  The biggest earthquake to hit Puerto Rico in a century has hobbled the island. Power remains out in many areas and people are afraid to stay indoors because of structural concerns.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 4:48 am

• Saturday Sports: NFL Playoffs, Olympics And Politics

  The NFL playoffs continue without Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and the IOC says it will not allow protests at the 2020 Tokyo Games. NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 4:48 am

• Author Meng Jin On 'Little Gods'

  NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Meng Jin about her debut novel Little Gods, about a 17-year-old whose journey to China reveals the life of her mother, a former physicist who died in America.

  Jan 11, 2020 at 4:48 am

• Ryan Crocker On The Killing Of Qassem Soleimani

  NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq about the complicated relationship between the U.S., Iraq and Iran.

  Jan 04, 2020 at 9:29 am

• Iraq's Position Between The U.S. And Iran

  Abbas Kadhim, director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council, speaks to NPR's Leila Fadel about Iraq's position between the U.S. and Iran: Can the country afford to take sides?

  Jan 04, 2020 at 4:54 am

• Evangelicals Rally For Trump

  Evangelicals supporting President Trump rallied in Miami Friday. It comes after a major Evangelical publication called for Trump to be removed from office.

  Jan 04, 2020 at 4:54 am

• Iraqi Protester On Iran-U.S. Tensions

  NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Halah, an anti-government protester in Baghdad who is worried about what a proxy war between Iran and the U.S. will mean for her country.

  Jan 04, 2020 at 4:54 am

• Ofra Bloch On 'Afterward'

  NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with filmmaker Ofra Bloch about her new documentary Afterward. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Bloch decided to examine her long-held belief that Germans were bad.

  Jan 04, 2020 at 4:54 am

• T.S. Eliot's Love Letters Unsealed

  NPR's Leila Fadel talks to scholar Frances Dickey of the University of Missouri about the trove of love letters T.S. Eliot wrote to a woman he called his "muse." The letters were unsealed this week.

  Jan 04, 2020 at 4:54 am