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Sept. 1 marks what would have been Pepper's 100th birthday. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation of the jazz saxophonist, who started on clarinet at age 9. Pepper died in 1982.

Democratic lawmakers and more than a thousand current and former HHS staff say Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health. Kennedy says he came to clean house and he's delivering.

The U.S. is designating Ecuador's two largest gangs — Los Choneros and Los Lobos — as foreign terrorist organizations.

Palestinians say they've been forsaken by the world as the war in Gaza grinds on, while Iran and Israel's ceasefire holds.

U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, D.-Ill speaks with Morning Edition about a classified assessment that showed U.S. strikes did not "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program as President Trump said.

How did a streetwear-loving kid from Chicago become Louis Vuitton's artistic director in Paris? Critic Robin Givhan explores the rise of Virgil Abloh in her new book, Make It Ours.

For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.

Activists in Venice, Italy say there's "No Space For Bezos" and protest the wedding of the Amazon founder. From Rome, Wall Street Journal correspondent Margherita Stancati talks with NPR's A Martinez about the controversy.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the implications of the Karen Read verdict and what it might say about the public's trust in law enforcement.

Residents of the state of Maine are not used to extreme heat. We hear from a strawberry farm where owners are worried about crop damage, and a beach where people are heading to cool off this summer.