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Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the jazz opera "Jonny spielt auf" (pronounced shpeelt auf) of the new series "Entartete" (pronounced ent-ART-a-tuh, London Records). It''s a series of music banned during the Holocaust.

Movie critic Steven Schiff reviews "A Dangerous Woman" starring Deborah Winger.

TV critic David Bianculli previews "Marilyn and Bobby: Her Final Affair," a USA cable network telemovie airing tonight. Bianculli says the show mixes fact and fiction while telling the story of the alleged romance between Marilyn Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy.

PATRICK BELLEGARDE-SMITH is a professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Today, he will place Haiti's current political situation in a historical context, explaining the history of American involvement in Haiti. BELLEGARDE-SMITH grew up in Haiti, at the height of the Duvalier dictatorship. His grandfather was Dantes Bellegarde, one of Haiti's leading social philosophers. BELLEGARDE-SMITH will talk about Haiti from a personal standpoint as well

Commentator Maureen Corrigan has a review of a new biography of a turn of the century journalist: "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist" (Times Books).

Authorities warn current conditions are ideal for more fires. Officials say embers from the Bootleg Fire can travel long distances on the current 25 mph winds.

"If we didn't lead this fight, nobody would," says a Beirut resident whose 3-year-old daughter was among the 217 killed in the blast. An official investigation has stalled. No one has been prosecuted.

Was it a brutal gang rape and killing? Or a terrible accident with a bungled response? Police are searching for clues — as protests erupt in India's capital.

She had been competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Timanovskaya is reuniting with her husband — who has also obtained a humanitarian visa.

An expert says threats against Belarusian athletes aren't uncommon. Olympian Kristina Timanovskaya refused to board a flight home to Belarus after officials abruptly took her to the airport.

"The requests single out President Trump because he is a Republican and a political opponent," the former president's lawyers say in a new motion.

"I cannot imagine more worthy recipients than the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this temple of democracy," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says.