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The NBA Finals begin. The best-of-seven series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers is sure to be thrilling. It's the seventh year in a row a different NBA champion will be crowned.

The band the Ting Tings has a new album, Home, and a new sound. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to members Katie White and Jules De Martino about both.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Stephen Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor, about how President Trump's legal strategy on travel bans has shifted from his previous administration.

Texas Tech and the University of Texas are facing off in the College World Series. We talk about it and the million dollar player.

8/28/24 This week, OTA host David Latulippe welcomes Dan Hoyle and Aldo Billingsbea to talk about the new solo show Takes All Kinds. Philippa Kelly talks with Naomi Iizuka and Karina Gutiérrez about Richard II, and Peter Robinson returns with a background piece on what led Noel Coward to Private Lives. Wednesdays @ 4:00pm PST!

President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes Afghanistan. Since American troops left in August of 2021, many Afghans have already arrived in the U.S. but many more are still waiting.

The Oakland City Council heard a report Monday on its non-police response program, MACRO.

This Stoop episode is an ode to Black men's voices. Celebrating some of the voices that soothe, excite, or give us a sense of being grounded. Black men’s voices have symbolized comfort, affection, and authority in pop culture. We also meet voice actor and writer Kingsley Okafor of the group that became a viral sensation: Bearded Black Men Reading.

We hear a reading from local actor and Zen Buddhist priest, Peter Coyote. It's about Japanese gift wrapping around Buddhist teachings.

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019. He says writing it was a way to honor her memory.

President Trump and his former adviser, Elon Musk, lashed out at each other on social media Thursday in a public feud that has ramped up since Musk left his role with the administration last week.

ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.