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On <em>Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part</em>, Caroline Shaw's new album with Sō Percussion, the hyper-flexible composer reinvents as a singer-songwriter.

Caroline Shaw Is Not Here To Save Classical Music

The Pulitzer-winning composer began her career with a creative blank check, but she's spent much of the past decade moving sideways. Her latest trick: reinventing as a songwriter.

The Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, China, was closed as part of a shutdown of public transportation — an effort to control the spread of what's being called the Wuhan coronavirus.

China Halts Transportation Out Of Wuhan To Contain Coronavirus. Could It Backfire?

Experts say China's move is unprecedented. Here's why they're opposed.

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond famously waiting for her close-up at the end of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard."

Ken Classics Week Takes Us Around The Globe

Celebrate cinema from Hollywood to France to Japan

On Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part, Caroline Shaw's new album with Sō Percussion, the hyper-flexible composer reinvents as a singer-songwriter.

Caroline Shaw Is Not Here To Save Classical Music

The Pulitzer-winning, Kanye-collaborating composer began her career with a creative blank check, but she's spent much of the past decade moving sideways. Her latest trick: reinventing as a songwriter.

Vera Gissing, shown above at age 6, was one of 669 children from Prague whom Nicholas Winton helped save in the lead-up to World War II.

He Saved 669 Children From Nazis — A New Book Tells His Story To Kids

In Nicky & Vera, Peter Sís chronicles the work of Nicholas Winton, who helped hundreds of kids escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.

Researchers have spotted the Somali sengi, a relative of aardvarks and elephants, in Djibouti.

Tiny Elephant Shrew Resurfaces After More Than 50 Years On Lost Species List

The mouse-size Somali sengi — a kind of elephant shrew with a pointy nose and large, adorable eyes — was thought to be a lost species. Researchers recently spotted the creature in Djibouti.

A pedestrian walks past anti-5G graffiti in the Flatiron District of New York in May.

Anatomy Of A COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy theories need the right ingredients to take off, and the coronavirus pandemic has been a breeding ground for them. Here's how fear, wealth and social media all play a role.

GREAT DECISIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY: Artificial Intelligence: The Global Race For The New Frontier

Stream now or tune in Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

East Alabama Medical Center nurse Harvard Graham checks fluids for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit this month in Opelika, Ala.

What's At Stake With Trump's Threat: COVID-19 Relief And A Government Shutdown

President Trump has introduced a round of Christmas chaos that imperils direct payments to millions of Americans suffering due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Can A Coronavirus Patient Who Isn't Showing Symptoms Infect Others?

What We Know About The Silent Spreaders Of COVID-19

Some cases of the novel coronavirus are asymptomatic, presymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Scientists are trying to determine their role in transmission of the disease.

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