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U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell recounted how he and his fellow officers were crushed by the violent mob of pro-Trump supporters on Jan. 6.

The prodigal pair of teenage post-pop creators return by enlisting the help of two other forward-looking geniuses.

The 2020 Mercury Prize winner performs five songs in a London flat for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.

The focus of many worshippers in Vrindavan is the Sri Radha Raman Temple, where a black stone statue of Krishna sits enshrined and wrapped in saffron robes. Many consider the small stone statue to be Krishna himself.

Ruth Westheimer was over 50 when she began her career advising in a very public way — on the most private of matters. For Dr. Ruth, now 78, the key to a happy life is healthy sex. Sexuality education, as she calls it, is serious stuff, but must be taught with some humor, she says.

A new, two-volume anthology of U.S. speeches offers ample evidence that political speaking has framed and rallied every great event from the Revolution to the present. Editor Ted Widmer talks about the famous and not-so-famous orators in American Speeches.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with January 6th committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin about the investigation and where it's headed next.

Have you ever found yourself in the library or a bookstore, about to go on vacation, with no idea what books to bring? NPR's Lynn Neary talks to three book critics about the best reads of the summer.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist and author Scott Anderson about Iran's power structure after the killing of Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

In England, a man went to the store and bought a package of six eggs. He cracked the first one open, and found a double yolk. Then he cracked open the second. Two yolks in that one as well. It turns out all six eggs were like that. The chances of that happening:about one in a trillion.