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With songs like "Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen created his own brand of folk-rock art music. Listeners discovered Cohen's songs in the mid-'60s when Judy Collins recorded "Suzanne," and Cohen followed that by recording his own album of his songs. Cohen discusses his career with Terry Gross.

2: Journalist STEVE ROBERTS. He's the senior writer for "U.S. News & World Report." Before that he covered Congress for The New York Times. He'll talk with Marty about the 103rd Congress which just went into session. It's the most diverse group yet. ROBERTS will tell us what to expect.

Performing at the NPR Music offices, Adia Victoria's voice is powerful and direct, with no artifice. Here, she performs "Heathen," plus two songs from her debut album, Beyond The Bloodhounds.

After a commanding victory over Australia into Wednesday's quarterfinal, the U.S. women's basketball team is aiming for an unprecedented 7th straight gold medal.

Lukas Foss is a pianist, a conductor and, perhaps most notably, a composer. Foss was born in Germany and was fifteen when his family immigrated to this country in 1937. Even before that he'd begun his prolific output as a composer and was recognized as a child prodigy on the piano.

Airlines are delaying hundreds of flights and canceling thousands of others.

People will need to show proof of vaccination to dine indoors at restaurants and work out inside gyms.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new ban on evictions until Oct. 3 on Tuesday.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has said he will just call more special sessions until the restrictive voting rights bill is passed.

One of Bosnia's leading film makers, and professor of film at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Sarajevo ADEMIR KENOVIC. His newest film "SA-Life" (SA stands for Sarajevo) is compiled of scenes shot by himself, other film makers, and film students in and around Sarajevo that capture the horror of the war. Each day, KENOVIC and his fellow film makers would meet in his basement studio to plan the day's shoot, going out with hand-held cameras. KENOVIC has made three other films. "SA-Life" played at the Cannes Film Festival and is now playing at the "International Video Arts Festival" at Lincoln Center in New York.

New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will be the state's first woman chief executive after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would be stepping down effective Aug. 24.

The Justice Department has charged approximately 40 people with conspiracy in connection with the push to stop Congress from certifying President Biden's election victory on Jan. 6.