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Host Madeline Brand talks with commentator John Feinstein about Tiger Woods' quest for a third consecutive major tournament victory -- first round of the PGA championship begins today at the Valhalla Country Club in Kentucky.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on a type of sharecropping that targets Hispanic farmers in California. The farmers sign contracts with vegetable brokers, who lend them money to go into business and then claim a large share of the crops as payment. The farmers tend to be former migrant workers, who are not fluent in English.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS reports that a Finnish high-tech firm is teaming up with Marvel Enterprises to bring Spiderman and other superheros to wireless phones and gadgets.

Host Madeleine Brand talks to Alexander Pikayev, an expert on Russian defense policy at the Carnegie Center in Moscow about attempts to rescue the sailors trapped in a Russian nuclear submarine on the seabed in the Arctic circle.

Scott reads mail from listeners.

Public health officials and infectious disease experts say requiring vaccination for domestic air and rail travel would help slow COVID-19's spread, but the travel industry opposes a vaccine mandate.

Scott speaks with Fortune Magazine editor-at-large Joe Nocera and with Yona Schtern, chief officer of marketing for "Virtual Model." Eighteen months ago Joe and Scott developed an idea for a dot-com company: joeandscott.com. But that dream is now a reality, as "Virtual Model."

A residential building opening this fall in New York City will have its own custom-made scent. It's the latest in luxury living. Scott speaks to the interior designer, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, who will make the final selection of frangrances.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sonja Diaz, director of the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at UCLA, about the significance of the Latino vote in California gubernatorial recall election.

Piers Morgan, the British journalist and former CNN host, has joined Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Fox News Media in a global deal that includes a new TV show in early 2022.