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The Iran-backed Houthi militia captured a strategic Red Sea port city this week. NPR's Scott Simon talks to April Longley Alley of the Washington Institute.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Nate Amos, who performs as This Is Lorelei, about his latest album, "The Singer in My Band."

Despite a diagnoses of stiff-person syndrome, Celine Dion will perform 16 shows in Paris over the next two months.

President Trump is working in some Irish diplomacy as he attends a golf tournament at his club in Doonbeg.

The best preserved feather from the age of the dinosaurs was just revealed — and it was inside a blob of fossilized poop. That feather is from an aquatic bird that lived 66 million years ago.

President Trump attended a 9/11 memorial service at the Pentagon on Friday after speaking on both nights of a Republican gathering in Dallas.

Fed chairs wield great power and they take great care to signal what they intend to do ahead of time to avoid surprises. Not Kevin Warsh though. He wants to say less, and investors are worried.

We visit the Turkish breakfast capital, Van, where one street is dedicated to the most important meal of the day.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Emily St. John Mandel about her new novel, "Exit Party." Set in the near future, it's an exploration of identity involving doppelgangers and a mysterious painting.