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Recovery efforts are underway for six people presumed dead in the Baltimore bridge collapse. NBC has dropped a former RNC chair as a contributor after backlash from the public and its network stars.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Michele Steele discuss Iran's World Cup participation and college basketball as it heads into March Madness.

Hoover Institution fellow Eyck Freymann explains what the Iran war and the blockade of the Straight of Hormuz reveals about modern economic chokepoints, geopolitics and war strategies.

Justin Bieber made a high-profile return to public performance at the Coachella Music Festival last weekend. But it's how he did it that has fans talking.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to James Kraska - a professor of international maritime law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island - about the legality of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.

Climate change and exploitation of natural resources threaten the natural wonder that is the Dead Sea.

Neuroscientist Kamilla Souza is bringing the study of whale and dolphin brains to her home country of Brazil. Now there's a team of Brazilian scientists intent on understanding the marine mammals.

Looking for a read that's complicated, gutsy and entertaining? Maureen Corrigan recommends Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke; American Fantasy, by Emma Straub; and Enormous Wings, by Laurie Frankel.

The administration has announced a new military strategy designed to open up the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, but it's unclear if this will break Iran's grip on the key waterway.

NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it