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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with professor Joshua Landis, who directs the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about how the fall of the Assad regime could change global dynamics.

Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for years. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with two of his siblings, after Assad's regime fell in Syria.

For the first time in a generation, Syrians are no longer living under the regime of a brutal dictator. Our reporter travelled from Lebanon to Syria's capital, Damascus, talking to Syrians along the way and tells us how people are adjusting to their new reality.

Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar energy industry and for the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. He has also travelled extensively in the Middle East and speaks Arabic.

A federal bankruptcy judge rejected a bid by the owners of The Onion to buy Alex Jones' Infowars company, saying the auction was flawed. The owners of The Onion say they are "deeply disappointed."

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas regularly perform in huge sold out venues. Recently, the two of them stopped by one that was a bit smaller: the NPR Tiny Desk.

In the 1950s, scientists exposed a tin of meat to a dose of radiation that they expected would kill all forms of life.

It wasn't until this week that Congress passed a law making the bald eagle the official U.S. bird. And one man spearheaded the effort to get this done.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Mohammed al-Refaai, who we first met nine years ago when he moved to Ohio from Syria.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Megan Twohey, investigative reporter at The New York Times , about Blake Lively's allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation during and after the film It Ends With Us.