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Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was published recently.

NPR Correspondent Howard Berkes covered the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens and has reported on changes at the volcano since. In an essay for NPR.org, Berkes recalls the massive blast of May 18, 1980, and its aftermath.

The NY Times did an exhaustive survey of the Fox News host's broadcasts. Reporter Nicholas Confessore says Carlson's show is based on ideas that were once "caged in a dark corner of American life."

Hernan Diaz's novel is constantly pulling a fast one on the reader. It opens with the saga of a Wall Street tycoon, but soon another narrative comes to upend the truth of everything that came before.

Forty years ago, two astronomers heard noise on a radio telescope that bolstered the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson recall their Nobel Prize-winning discovery.

The deadliest of Thursday's bombings occurred on the subway between the Russell Square and King's Cross stations. Because the train was so far underground when the bomb went off, recovering bodies has been difficult. Now, the King's Cross station has become an impromptu memorial site.

Jerome Powell was confirmed to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. The Senate vote comes as the central bank faces intense pressure to bring down inflation.

Hurricane Dennis gathered strength overnight as it moved north in the Gulf of Mexico. The full force of the storm is expected to hit the U.S. mainland along the Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coast Sunday afternoon. Sandra Averhart of member station WUWF in Pensacola, Fla., talks to guest host Sheilah Kast about evacuation efforts.

For years, NPR listener Phyllis Allen found her beliefs in the social movement of the times, from civil rights to Black Power. Now in her 50s, she is finally able to believe in the woman she is.

The automaker is recalling the vehicles and says it will offer free towing so owners can get them to a dealership for service.