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  • Serena Williams, seen here during the Australian Open in February 2021, has said she will compete in Wimbledon this month. Williams has not competed professionally since sustaining an injury at last year's Wimbledon tennis tournament.
    Serena Williams announces she will compete at Wimbledon this year
    Williams' announcement marks her return to professional competition since sustaining an injury at the tournament last year. It's also another chance for her to win her 24th Grand Slam singles title.
  • Photographer Patrick Demarchelier is seen at a fashion show in New York in 2004.
    Famed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier dies at age 78
    A close friend of Princess Diana, Patrick Demarchelier was one of the leading fashion photographers of his era.
  • Barbet Schroeder Takes On 'Terror's Advocate'
    The latest from French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female, Reversal of Fortune) is titled L'Avocat de la Terreur — released in the U.S. as Terror's Advocate. It's a documentary about lawyer Jacques Verges, known for defending war criminals, militants and yes, terrorists.
  • Joseph McElroy, Writing at His Own Pace
    Writer Joseph McElroy's latest work is Actress in the House, another in a series of complex novels. He discusses the writer's craft with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
  • Iraq War Takes Uneven Toll at Home
    An ongoing study by sociologist Robert Cushing examines the list of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and reveals an apparent statistical anomaly: soldiers and Marines from rural areas are dying at higher rates than troops from cities and suburbs. NPR's Howard Berkes looks at the research and at a Nevada family's loss.
  • The Iraq War: The Marines' View from the Ground
    During the first few months of the Iraq war, field historians armed with digital recorders conducted hundred of interviews with U.S. Marines, often fresh off the battlefield. The raw recordings offer a stirring, intimate look of the triumphs and failures on the road to Baghdad. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
  • Alice Sebold's Bleak 'Almost Moon'
    Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: The Lovely Bones centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Her latest, The Almost Moon, features a middle-aged woman who murders her ailing elderly mother.
  • Happy Birthday: Federal Income Tax Turns 100
    This year's IRS Form 1040 has 214 pages of instructions. When tax filing started a century ago, the 1040 had just one page of instructions.
  • Blackwater Founder Goes on the Defense
    Erik Prince, the founder of security firm, Blackwater USA, is before a House oversight committee Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The hearing offers a rare public glimpse at the media-shy Prince.
  • Heifetz Moves Online Amid Pandemic
    The spread of coronavirus has arts organization all around the world contemplating a summer without festivals. The Heifetz Institute in Staunton usually…
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