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We have the latest from Houston, where surging crowds led to panic at the Astroworld Festival, resulting in at least 8 deaths and several injuries.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former All Things Considered host Robert Siegel about Siegel's recent COVID-19 diagnosis.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who appeared on this program two years ago.

The daredevil aviator in Maggie Shipstead's new novel was inspired by Amelia Earhart. Shipstead says she wants to investigate the difference between death and a disappearance like Earhart's.

Small numbers in census results can determine whether a state keeps or loses a seat in Congress and vote in the Electoral College. If not for 26 people, Minnesota may have been down a seat.

Robert Jones Jr.'s debut novel is a love story between two enslaved men on a Mississippi plantation. He says that it was very important for him to depict love and art in the midst of sorrow.

The Winter Olympics are now underway and the FBI has been telling athletes heading to Beijing to bring a burner phone. There are all kinds of digital threats to the Olympics.

Coastal communities will need massive amounts of mud and dirt to protect their shorelines from rising seas. One federal agency has it, but most is disposed of instead of reused.

Shamanism is a shared aspect of Korean culture which predates other imported faiths, and – improbably – still survives in the two starkly different Korean states, North and South.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., for his reaction to Wednesday's attack on the U.S. Capitol and his concerns going forward.