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Yahoo is rejecting an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft. But it remains to be seen whether Yahoo shareholders will support a management decision to snub the software giant's bid.

When a psychic tells her that her biological father is still alive, Portland, Ore., comic-book artist Nicole Georges begins a quest of self discovery. Critic Carmen Gimenez Smith calls Georges' graphic memoir "a beautiful and innovative portrait" of an artist's journey.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Laura Jones, who runs a free clinic in West Virginia, about what a settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family would mean for programs like hers.

Police have confirmed reports of an active shooter at the Silicon Valley headquarters of YouTube.

The Kingston Trio made the song a hit in 1958, but it's an old folk song about a murder that happened in 1866.

Earth comes out April 17 under the name EOB. Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, Portishead's Adrian Utley, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and Laura Marling contribute to the album.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on the showing of Slobodan Milosevic in last Sunday's election in Yugoslavia; Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Laura Echevaria of the National Right to Life Committee on the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill RU-486; Senator John McCain and Jim Gianopulos, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee on marketing violent media to young people; Senator Richard Bryan (Democrat, Nevada), Attorney General Janet Reno, and Senator Richard Shelby (Republican, Alabama) at a hearing on the government's handling of the Wen Ho Lee case; Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

A new short movie by regional musician and filmmaker Laura Wetzler, “What Happened at the Veterans Home,” measures the human toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lalo -- the artist also known as Laura Friedman -- has injected some rock vitality into an instrument most often associated with straight-ahead jazz: the vibraphone. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Lalo about her music and her self-titled CD. Hear clips from 'Lalo.'

New Jersey food writer Laura Schenone set off on a quest to find her great-grandmother's hand-rolled ravioli recipe. Along the way, she reunites with relatives in Italy, and helps mend strained relations with others around the dinner table.