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  • Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll. Hear an interview and performance from Studio 4A.
  • Bieber's current single, "Baby," from his chart-topping album My World 2.0, is a slickly peppy bit of pop-soul that wears its freshly broken heart on its sleeve. Along the way, it neatly accomplishes the trick of tugging at the sympathies of Bieber's most besotted fans.
  • The tenor's musical tastes aren't confined to Puccini, Bizet and Strauss. His new, self-titled album gives him a chance to put his mark on everything from American spirituals to Top 40 hits.
  • Carol Jantsch, 21, soon will be the Philadelphia Orchestra's youngest member, and the first woman to be a principal tuba player in a top U.S. orchestra.
  • Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the fiddlehead fern. It looks like the scrolled top of a violin and tastes a little like asparagus.
  • David Franklin Slater, a retired U.S. Army officer, was accused of leaking top classified national defense information related to the Russia-Ukraine war on a foreign dating website.
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, spent time in the hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is now recovering at home, a spokesperson said.
  • Marisa Peñaloza is a senior producer on NPR's National Desk. Peñaloza's productions are among the signature pieces heard on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as weekend shows. Her work has covered a wide array of topics — from breaking news to feature stories, as well as investigative reports.
  • At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.
  • The former president now says an audiotape that came out this week, of him apparently showing reporters a top-secret document that he'd kept was all bravado.
  • The Guardian is reporting that several lawyers with business before the Supreme Court paid money via Venmo to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas.
  • NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that behind last month's eruption of violence over an obscure archaeological tunnel lies the bigger issue troubling the city's future: the challenge to the status quo whereby each religion respects and honors the holy places of their rival religions. That Palestinians are sensitive to each and every change in the makeup of Old Jerusalem can be explained by the fact that militant Zionists are insisting on encroaching and praying in the Muslim's holy sanctuary of Haram al Sahrif, on top of the Temple Mount.
  • Just 36 days before the Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation has suspended one of the team's top coaches. Female athletes on the skeleton team have accused their coach of sexual harassment. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.
  • A top campaign issue in Germany's election is the deportation of migrants who are considered dangerous or who don't qualify for asylum. Germany's broken deportation system will make that difficult.
  • Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi grew up hunting for jars of fiery Indian pickles in her grandmother's Chennai kitchen. She writes about food and family in her new memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate.
  • Searches for 'dating apps for older people," "top dating apps 2021," and "virtual first date ideas" have also all seen a significant spike.
  • In New York, residents of Buffalo are still in shock over a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket. Ten African Americans were shot to death, and three people were wounded.
  • A Colorado man is attempting to push a peanut with his nose all the way to the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak.
  • "I really love it," Jolien Boumkwo said as her unusual turn in the 100-meter hurdles created a sensation.
  • Rep. Gwen Moore's bill is unlikely to go anywhere in the GOP-controlled House, but it seems more designed to troll Republicans anyway.
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