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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Thompson-Reuters insurance correspondent Carolyn Cohn about how a record-breaking payout for the Key Bridge disaster may affect the insurance industry.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is a Republican in one of the bluest states in the country. He's also the most popular governor and is expected to easily win reelection.

Carolyn Jack has the latest on efforts to resolve the ongoing hostage situation in Lima, Peru. Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is in Washington. He'll meet with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tomorrow. Yesterday, Fujimori met with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in Toronto. The two leaders decided to renew efforts to negotiate with terrorists holding 72 hostages in the Japanese Ambassador's residence. But, President Fujimori made clear he will not budge on the rebel's key demand to release jailed guerillas.

A group of advocates in Louisville took over an abandoned motel and turned it into a no barrier homeless shelter. It's an approach some say is really needed.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Theo Baker, whose college newspaper investigation brought down Stanford University's president in 2023. Baker's new book on education and power is How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University.

J.C. Hallman's audacious account of his engagement with the erotic writing of Nicholson Baker makes a splash, but critic Heller McAlpin says the book sometimes runs aground in self-indulgence.

Hate mowing the grass? Sarah Baker of Ohio speaks to host Melissa Block about why she's refusing to mow her lawn, and the benefits of letting your land grow wild.

Scientists racing to protect coral amid an ocean heat wave that is blistering reefs off south Florida got some rare good news this month. Some of the rescued corals made babies in their lab.

Carolyn Jack reports from Toronto on a proposed law in Canada which would give Loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolution the right to sue for compensation for property seized by George Washington's army. The legislation is a tongue-in-cheek response to the Helms-Burton Law passed in the US this year. Helms-Burton gives Americans the right to sue foreign firms which invest in Cuban property expropriated by Fidel Castro's revolution. While the Canadian bill is satire, it is meant to drive home a point about the anger at Helms-Burton in Canada, which is one of Cuba's largest trading partners.

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