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NPR's A Martinez speaks with journalist and author Danny Funt about his new book, "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling."

Democrats have a new candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine: Troy Jackson. In one of the country's most closely-watched races, he'll have less than 100 days to make his case.

U.S. officials say the ever-growing population of wild horses that roam federal lands in Colorado is depleting natural resources. But some activists say efforts to remove the horses are inhumane.

Former U.S. deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger is watching for signs of competition and cooperation on artificial intelligence at President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's summit this week.

Twelve Muslim women discuss what it means to wear the headscarf — and why they decided to take it off.

Watch Gunn's trio perform a mesmerizing set at the NPR Music offices.

For its 50th anniversary, join us in an online listening party for Joni Mitchell's Blue. NPR Music's Ann Powers will be joined by Brandi Carlile in a live conversation about the album.

There are 100 million landmines in place around the world, left over from wars and conflicts. They continue to kill and maim thousands of civilians each year. Human Rights groups are calling for the banning of landmines. Terry will talk with two individuals about this: ERIC STOVER, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights. He's one of the authors of "Land Mines: A Deadly Legacy," a study about the medical and social consequences of land mines in Cambodia. And with STEPHEN GOOSE, Washington director of the Arms Project, a division of Human Rights Watch

This week, we listen back to some favorite segments to remind everyone what shows with actual audiences sound like.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF continued.Satirist HARRY SHEARER, the host of "Le Show," and the voice behind several characters on "The Simpsons". SHEARER is also the author of "It's the Stupidity, Stupid: Why (Some) People hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch." This week he is in Philadelphia as part of the "Shadow Convention" an alternative to the Republican and Democratic conventions, which covers the issues it says the other conventions won't touch like campaign finance reform, poverty in the midst of prosperity, and the drug war. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE END OF THE SHOW).12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . . as George W. Bush makes his way to the Republican convention. . .a look at his life before he was a public figure. A talk with NICHOLAS KRISTOF of the New York Times, who has profiled the candidate in a series of articles. Also satirist HARRY SHEARER gives us his take on the convention. That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air.

The Canadian singer-songwriter gives a deep, soulful performance against a sometimes moody backdrop of bass saxophone and bowed guitars.

A high-tech machine that monitors infants' brain cells as they listen to speech reveals a key element in how babies go from hearing sounds to speaking them.