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NPR's Scott Simon and sports writer Howard Bryant discuss the week in sports (DRAFT)

Former First Lady ROSALYNN CARTER. She has a new book, "Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers" (Times Books). She talks with Terry about helping others and about her life since she and her husband left the White House.

Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH. She's written her memoir, "Barbara Bush" (Charles Scribner's Sons). A story of a "life of privilege" she writes. The book chronicles her early life, her marriage to George Bush during World War Two at the age of 19, and the political path that took them to the White House. BARBARA BUSH also writes about a depression she fell into in the mid-1970s in which she wept each night in the arms of her husband, and had thoughts about crashing her car into a tree or oncoming auto. The depression finally lifted on its own. The memoir is based on her diaries. One reviewer writes that BUSH "casts herself mostly as enthralled bystander at her husband's ascent from local Texas politics to the White House." (CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

In reaction to a declining domestic marketplace, Avon, the world's largest cosmetic company, and other U.S. businesses have targeted a more global audience. The strategy has definitely worked for Avon, last year they made four-and-a-half billion dollars in profit from sales in 125 countries. One town on the Amazon has no doctor or dentist, but the 3,000 residents are served by six Avon representatives.

Spike Lee's latest collaboration with Denzel Washington — their first in nearly 20 years — reimagines a 1963 story about a wealthy businessman. In this version, Washington plays a music executive and Jeffrey Wright plays his chauffeur.

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

The Fed chair will speak Friday at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The speech comes as the central bank is under mounting pressure from the White House to lower interest rates.

low key, but important role in her husband's re-election campaign. Mrs. Clinton has played the part of maintaining the Democratic base of voters, while President Clinton concentrates on undecided voters.

STAR LINE recasts the affable indie rapper as something sharper-eged — a skeptic of the state and champion of the collective, who is ready to scrap if necessary.

The suffering of America's gun violence crisis is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by decades of disinvestment and racial discrimination. Trump is unravelling efforts to solve the problem.

Investigators say the former president and first lady exerted undue influence on the conservative People Power Party to nominate a specific candidate during a 2022 election.

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.