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Sixty-one years ago Dwight was an astronaut candidate. Sunday, along with five others, he made the trip on a rocket owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — making him the oldest person to go to space.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

Florida's port leaders urge state lawmakers that they need more funding to help deal with the supply-chain problems they've been grappling with in recent years.

The crust of this year's prize winning buttermilk pie may have been store bought. Fair officials are investigating.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

The redevelopment project is the first of three phases of an affordable housing community in South Miami-Dade being called Homestead Gardens.

Israel's attack on Iran sparked the biggest jump in crude oil prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. Stocks fell sharply.

President Trump plans to tap an economist from the conservative Heritage Foundation to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He fired the previous leader after a disappointing jobs report.

Virginia Heffernan and Paul Ford have never met but they have crossed paths, and they've been sending fake work emails to see who most horrifies the other. They published them on the website Medium.

The former president is in Egypt to observe its first free presidential election, which begins on Wednesday.

Buckley says she for the "shadowy bits" of her characters. John Powers reviews the Japanese film Kokuho. Documentarian Morgan Neville chronicles Paul McCartney's transformation in Man on the Run.

The Richmond, Va., neighborhood of Fulton was once home to a large number of the city's middle class African-American families. But by the 1960s, it had fallen on hard times. A new album by bluesman Corey Harris pays tribute to the Southern neighborhood with a haunted past.

The world No.2-ranked show jumping rider from Palm Beach County rode his horse Greya to victory in the final Saturday Night Lights event of the season at the Winter Equestrian Festival.

Florida’s rural countries want to be sure their voices are heard this session. They came together for rural county day Thursday to help highlight what makes them a unique and important part of the state.

Renee Montagne plays back a hip hop version of the Morning Edition theme submitted by the hip-hop group Jazzy Triggs. (This piece originally aired on May 26, 2016 on Morning Edition.)

Truss beats George Canning, who was prime minister for 119 days in 1827.

No matter the outcome of today’s Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox game, catcher Danny Jansen will be able to call himself a winner.

Tensions rise as Frank and Lu are forced to reunite and work on a case with a feuding influencer couple.

A prominent South Florida immigration lawyer said that scammers are using artificial intelligence to steal his identity and rob unsuspecting immigrants out of thousands of dollars.

A pro-Russian politician has won Slovakia's parliamentary elections, throwing NATO's unity amid the Russia-Ukraine war into question.