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AILSA CHANG, HOST: All right, the hottest fashion trend of the season might be salmon hats. Yes, you heard that right.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino about the reactions Americans have had to the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In a windy patch of desert outside Barstow, Calif., a 700-pound planetary rover named Helelani is churning its thick tires through a flour-like dust.

Robots are the stars of this Mojave festival Topline: RoboPalooza has some of the trappings of other desert festivals, like live rock bands, food trucks and portable toilets.

The American swimmer Gretchen Walsh had a historic performance this weekend. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Braden Keith, the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com, about this moment.

Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.

A statement in the name of the former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, says that he left his country involuntarily after rebel fighters surrounded a Russian air base in his country and he was flown out. Assad's fortunes may have taken a turn for the worse, but that is not the case for Turkey, which shares a long border with northern Syria. Turkey has supported opposition groups since the beginning of the civil war and is now expected to play a significant role in shaping the new Syria. To understand all of this, we're joined now by NPR's Fatma Tanis in Istanbul. Hi, Fatma.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with ProPublica reporter Annie Waldman about her discover that United Healthcare has been strategically denying access to care for families living with autism.

Working with artists like Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo to distill their personalities and voices into distinctive and personal songs, Nigro has established himself as a producer adept at making pop hits for a new generation.

Scientists with NASA are launching enormous balloons, the size of a football stadium, from the Antarctic ice. They're carrying experiments on dark matter and other mysteries.