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In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to British author Ian McEwan about his new novel, "What We Can Know."

The BART Board of Directors issued a public apology yesterday after two recent major service disruptions that left one of the Bay Area's most expansive transit agencies paralyzed and stranded hundreds of thousands of riders across the region.

President Trump's U.K. state visit this week won't include the Scottish island where his late immigrant mother was born. Mary Anne MacLeod was a Gaelic speaker who learned English as a second language.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Amanda Pascali about her new album, full of her interpretations of traditional Balkan and Mediterranean tunes. It's called "Roses and Basil."

A government shutdown looks increasingly likely at the end of the month, and a memorial service for Charlie Kirk is due to be held in Arizona.

Demonstrators gathered outside the Hollywood studio where Jimmy Kimmel films his late night show to protest ABC's suspension of the comedian.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Israel where he'll meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu Monday, as leaders of Arab and Islamic countries also prepare for an emergency summit.

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art.

2: PABLO MEDINA is a Cuban-born poet and essayist who has just written his first novel, "The Marks of Birth" (Farrar.Straus.Giroux). In the novel, MEDINA explores the experience of exile through the eyes of a young character whose family is forced to flee the political unrest of a Caribbean island-nation, and begin again in America. MEDINA has also written two collections of poems: "Pork Rind and Cuban Songs" and "Arching into the Afterlife," and a book of personal essays entitled "Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood." MEDINA currently teaches at the MFA writing program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

NPR talks with Joe Mitchell, Republican candidate for Congress in Iowa and founder of Run Gen Z, a nonprofit with the goal of getting young conservatives into office, about Charlie Kirk's influence.

The First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech for the nation's people and press. But this week, that protection was tested.

Aside from soccer or royal events, Brits don't fly their flag as much as Americans do. Now, with anti-immigrant groups embracing the Union Jack, it's part of a debate on what it means to be British.