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Leaf through the most recent Arizona budget, and you'll find everything from a mask mandate ban to voting restrictions. A new lawsuit says those aren't budget items; they are political horse-trading.

Perhaps the most famous banjo player in the world, Fleck dedicates his new album, My Bluegrass Heart, to his late musical heroes, Tony Rice and Chick Corea.

Reporters around California share how the recall election vote against Gov. Gavin Newsom is unfolding Tuesday night.

Hurricane Nicholas brought heavy rain, flooding and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in Texas. The storm is weaker now and concern has turned to Louisiana, already battered by Hurricane Ida.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maggie Nelson, author of the new book On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, about exploring what it means to be free in our interconnected world.

Producer T Bone Burnett found a surprisingly good fit when he matched wispy-voiced bluegrass vocalist Alison Krauss with hard-rock belter Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame). Their new CD, Raising Sand, has a relaxed, intimate feel.

The Russian leader will attend an upcoming regional meeting via teleconference, the Kremlin said. Putin said he got his second COVID-19 vaccine in April.

Israeli forces -- moving towards a June 1st deadline set by their government -- are pulling out of southern Lebanon. Israeli-allied militiamen are also fleeing the area that Israeli forces have occupied for the past 22-years. As they leave, Lebanese civilians are moving in. And Hizbolla forces have taken over 14 villages as the Israeli and SLA forces vacate the previously Israeli-occupied zone. Robert talks with Nicholas Blanford, a correspondent for the Daily Star, an English language newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, about the situation.

Contemporary folk artist Gilbert talks with Lisa Simeone about how his identity drives his music. Gilbert is an African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter in a field dominated by whites. But he finds his music cuts across racial and ethnic lines. Excerpts from his latest CD Somerville Live (Disismye 003) recorded in his home state, Massachusetts.

Parts of southern Louisiana could see isolated rain totals of 20 inches through Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. Hundreds of thousands of utility accounts are now without power in Texas.