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Across the U.S., coyotes seem to have invaded neighborhoods that humans consider their own. NPR looks at the debate over managing their population growth.

Justin Bieber released a sequel to his album Swag before listeners even had a chance to really sit with the original. The move is indicative of a broader trend.

Growing up, White tried to "cure" his own homosexuality; he later drew upon that time for his 1982 bestseller, A Boy's Own Story. White died June 3. Originally broadcast in 1985, 1994, 1997 and 2006.

Rescuers are still trying to reach victims after an earthquake on Sunday devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan. The country's disaster management authority says more than 950 people were killed.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col. Lawrence Cosgrave signed his name on the wrong line.

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

At the International AIDS Society meeting this year, a young woman from South Africa spoke. She is the first Black woman from Africa to be potentially cured of HIV.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Susan Rice, national security advisor to President Obama, about today's White House talks between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.

On today's show, we hear from the directors of the new movie "Freaky Tales," then ODC/Dance talks about one of their upcoming shows, and the play "Fat Ham" puts a Black, Southern, queer twist on Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

A father shares his four-year-old daughter's experience hiding in a church basement home to her preschool as gunfire erupted upstairs at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

Lice is low down on threats to public health — they don't carry disease, and they don't jump or fly. But school systems and parents are still grappling with whether to keep kids with lice in class.