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An undated Texas Department of Criminal Justice photo shows death row inmate Billy Jack Crutsinger. He was executed for fatally stabbing an 89-year-old woman and her daughter more than 16 years ago.

Texas Inmate Executed For Killing An Elderly Mother And Daughter In 2003

Billy Jack Crutsinger, 64, was the 14th inmate executed in the U.S. this year and the fifth in Texas. That state has 10 other executions scheduled for 2019.

Margaret Atwood says reader questions about the world of <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> — and the world we live in now — inspired <em>The Testaments</em>.

Hear Margaret Atwood Read From 'The Testaments,' Her Sequel To 'The Handmaid's Tale'

In this recording, exclusive to NPR, Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid's Tale, reading from her long-awaited sequel. Some 15 years after the first book, it introduces a few new voices.

Margaret Atwood says reader questions about the world of The Handmaid's Tale — and the world we live in now — inspired The Testaments.

Hear Margaret Atwood Read From 'The Testaments,' Her Sequel To 'The Handmaid's Tale'

In this recording, exclusive to NPR, Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid's Tale, reading from her long-awaited sequel. Some 15 years after the first book, it introduces a few new voices.

Dwayne Tomah, the youngest fluent Passamaquoddy speaker, sings a Passamaquoddy song outside of his home in Perry, Maine. Tomah is translating and interpreting songs and stories from wax cylinders recorded nearly 130 years ago.

Historic Recordings Revitalize Language For Passamaquoddy Tribal Members

A partnership between members of the Passamaquoddy tribe and the Library of Congress to transcribe wax cylinder recordings from 1890 is bringing the tribe's language back to life.

Dr. Dan Dahle visits his patient Wilma Chesbro, a former operating room nurse that he worked with for decades, in this undated photo.

Paging More Doctors: California’s Worsening Physician Shortage

In a northern California valley stretching under miles of bright blue sky between two snowy volcanic peaks, Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta, Daniel Dahle is known as a godsend, a friend, a lifesaver, a companion until the end.

Baltimore's Franklin Square neighborhood is hotter than about two-thirds of the neighborhoods in the city. It's also in one of Baltimore's poorest areas.

As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most

Hotter neighborhoods tend to be poorer in dozens of major U.S. cities. That extra heat can have serious health effects for those living there.

'Fly, Already' Doesn't Quite Get Airborne

Etgar Keret at his best can be brilliant, and some of the stories in his new collection are nearly perfect, but over all it's an uneven read, weighed down by pointless whimsy and unearned pessimism.

Strong winds seen from the balcony of a hotel in Freeport, Grand Bahama, where Hurricane Dorian hovered most of Monday, pummeling the islands with a fearsome Category 4 assault.

5 Dead As Slow-Moving Dorian Batters The Bahamas, Tracks Toward U.S.

The prime minister said five people were killed on Abaco Island. Even though the storm has weakened some, officials warn those in its current path not venture outside because "winds will suddenly increase after the eye passes."

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez cooks for her children in a Maryland church offering to protect her from deportation.

9 Months After Salvadoran Woman Took Refuge In Maryland Church, She Still Can't Leave

NPR's Leila Fadel first met Rosa Gutierrez Lopez in January, after she sought refuge at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. If she leaves the property, she risks being deported to El Salvador.

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, 41, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador lives at the Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, in Bethesda, Md.

9 Months After Salvadoran Woman Took Refuge In Maryland Church, She Still Can't Leave

NPR's Leila Fadel first met Rosa Gutierrez Lopez in January, after she sought refuge at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. If she leaves the property, she risks being deported to El Salvador.

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