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A syndicated, AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake books by real authors was published in major newspapers this week. Above, a reader enjoys the sunshine in Hyde Park in London in 2009.

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  • Books

How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers

Newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated book list featuring made-up books by famous authors.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 world leaders summit in Italy, June 13, 2024.

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  • Politics

In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline

Tapper's book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman."

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Cartoonist Scott Adams, pictured in 2014, said Monday he has metastatic prostate cancer and does not expect to survive the summer.

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  • Art & Design

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he's dying of 'the same cancer that Joe Biden has'

Adams said he expects "to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer." The controversial cartoonist, a vocal supporter of President Trump, expressed compassion for former President Biden.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Book News & Features

5 new books this week spotlight Joe Biden, the WNBA, rivers, migrants and autofiction

New books out this week look at everything from pressing political concerns — Original Sin — to perspective-altering riddles about life itself, like in Is A River Alive? and The Book of Records.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
In this still from a wildlife camera, a one-to-two-day-old howler monkey infant clings to the body of a young capuchin monkey. Scientists say the capuchins are likely kidnapping the howler babies for their own amusement.

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  • Science

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings

Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
On Saturday Night Live's cold open, James Austin Johnson played President Donald Trump and Emil Wakim played Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a sketch about Trump's Middle East trip.

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  • TV Reviews

SNL's 50th season proved it's still relevant. Can it stay that way?

The season finale, with host Scarlett Johansson and musical guest Bad Bunny, didn't give any answers about rumored cast departures.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Axios reporter Alex Thompson (left) and CNN's Jake Tapper during an interview at NPR on Thursday.

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  • Politics

This new book explores how Biden's inner circle kept his mental decline from voters

A new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson paints the story of how President Biden believed he was capable of serving a second term even though his inner circle hid that he wasn't.

May 19, 2025
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Courtney Dorning,
  • and 1 more

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  • Book Reviews

'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

May 19, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
"This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Cole Escola says of their Tony-nominated play <em>Oh, Mary!</em>

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  • Theater

Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret star? How Cole Escola's 'stupid' dream came true

Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola says.

May 19, 2025
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
PBS KIDS announced a new <em>Sesame Street </em>deal on Monday.

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  • Television

How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS

The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
This rigatoni with mushroom Bolognese looks meaty but it's not.

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  • Food

Want to cut back on meat without going vegetarian? Then mostly meatless cooking might be right for you

Be prepared to be fooled. A new cookbook from America's Test Kitchen features mostly meatless recipes that taste, look and feel pretty meaty.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Barry Gordemer
A miniature vintage kitchen created by artist Marina Totino.

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  • Arts & Life

Button-sized eggs and teapot cities: A peek into the big, wide world of miniatures

The pandemic helped supercharge a niche craft into a fine arts movement. Now the scene is more detailed and thoughtful than ever before.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Hartounian

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  • Book News & Features

Kids notice everything — here's what one child sees 'Next to Me'

When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together.

May 18, 2025
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  • Samantha Balaban

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  • Games & Humor

Sunday Puzzle: That's HANDY

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WSKG listener Cindy Mosqueda, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

May 18, 2025
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  • Will Shortz
JJ, winner of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, holds up the trophy he won for Austria with the song "Wasted Love" during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, May 17, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Austria wins 69th Eurovision Song Contest

"Wasted Love," sung by the classically trained countertenor JJ, beat out 25 other songs for the top prize at the international competition held this year in Basel, Switzerland.

May 17, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
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