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  • NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz of The New York Timesplay the Sunday Puzzle with Laurel Chessin of Mountain View, Calif.
  • Voting continues Wednesday for you to decide the top political story of the year. After the first round of voting, there are 32 stories left with some big match ups ahead.
  • "We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize," the company said in announcing a plan to help customers speed up their older iPhones.
  • The $4.6 billion bill passed in a 305-102 vote after the Republican-led Senate refused to adopt sections of the House version. The House would have added requirements for care of migrants.
  • The Trump administration ordered new sanctions on Iran, in response to the attack in Saudi Arabia that temporarily cut off nearly 6% of the world's oil supply. The sanctions' effect may be limited.
  • Three nonagenarians were among 200 parachutists marking the anniversary of the allied invasion of Europe, June 6, 1944. They leaped into the same fields once occupied by Nazi forces.
  • Once there were 100 cases, the government imposed broad confinement measures. More than seven weeks later, with 317 coronavirus-related deaths, Argentina is easing its lockdown outside Buenos Aires.
  • The fitness company initially refused to comply with the government's request for a recall after dozens of safety incidents, one of which resulted in a 6-year-old's death.
  • Stand-up comic JIMMY TINGLE. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/1/90)Filmmaker PAUL MAZURSKY. Mazursky's movies include "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" and "Scenes From a Mall." (REBROADCAST FROM 2/18/91)Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--Dale Loves Sophie to Death (Harper Perennial) and Fortunate Lives (Harper Perennial) - DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. DEW made her non-fiction debut with a memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's called The Family Heart and it's just been published in paperback (Ballantine). (REBROADCAST FROM 5/12/94)Writer GARY PAULSEN. He is a prolific writer of children's books. He began writing over twenty years ago, when he was coming to terms with his alcoholism. In 1985, PAULSON won the Newberry Award for children's fiction with Dogsong. He reads from his memoir Eastern Sun, Western Moon. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/12/93)DOROTHY BEAM-Her son Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson Publications). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/
  • The White House wants $24 billion in new aid to help recovery from recent wildfires and hurricanes. President Biden also asks for $6.4 billion to resettle vulnerable Afghans in the U.S.
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