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  • We spoke with the Americana superstar about her new album, In These Silent Days, and her recent memoir, Broken Horses. Get cozy.
  • NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with U.N. envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi about Iraq's future. Brahimi admits the United States will continue to have a significant presence there, but puts a great deal of faith in Iraq's newly announced government.
  • Friday is a big day for one of the most charismatic animals on Earth: the giant panda. Native to central China, the black-and-white bear was almost driven to extinction -- now one bred in captivity has been released back into the wild.
  • The Justice Department has confirmed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week for its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
  • Sales of former President Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life, are expected to hit the one-million mark soon. Some 935,000 copies have been sold since the book first went on sale last Tuesday. NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with the former president about the book's success and the Clinton legacy.
  • For a quarter-century, novelist Anne Rice has created a supernatural realm that often features her native New Orleans at its center. Her latest novel is Blood Canticle with another appearance by her most vivid character, the vampire Lestat. NPR's Liane Hansen visits with Rice at the author's Louisiana home.
  • Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said her Democratic National Convention speech will lay out the case for Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy from the perspective of a swing state governor.
  • More and more, companies such as Microsoft, Boeing and IBM are throwing out traditional job interview questions in favor of queries like "If you had to remove one state, which would it be?" NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that the goal is to find out how a potential employee really thinks. See sample questions.
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