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A messed up roll-out for the nation’s key financial aid form has left guidance counselors scrambling to help confused families. CAMILA DOMONOSKE, HOST: It’s been a tough year for high school seniors figuring out how to pay for college. That’s because the bungled rollout of this year’s FAFSA, where the Free Application for Federal Student…

The whereabouts of the body of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remain unknown after the Russian authorities refused to release it to his family. Show more Alexei Navalny’s mother has been unable to recover his body after his death in an Arctic jail, according to a close aide to the dead Russian opposition…

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. How 2020 Changed Us; (First) | The AIDS Epidemic and Black Communities  (Starts at 33:20) | In Praise of Deep Friendship  (Starts at 1:02:15) If you don’t subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here. Read the…

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, of the legendary rock band Sleater-Kinney, join guest host Tom Papa, Dulcé Sloan, Amy Dickinson, and Hari Kondabolu to talk their new album and 30 years of being a band. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy Read the full article here

Ukraine pulls its troops from the eastern town of Avdiivka after months of heavy fighting. Also in the programme, protests in Russia to honour the late opposition leader Navalny; and is knitting good for mental health? (Image: Destroyed building in Aviidvka. Credit: Reuters) Read the full article here

Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his wife and two children. Getty Images Maybe the plane crash in which Yevgeny Prigozhin died last summer, after he led an uprising against Vadimir Putin, really was an accident. Maybe Boris Nemtsov being shot to death in February 2015, just two days before he was to…

Indiana University canceled a planned exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby. Now a one-day exhibit by new organizers is sold out. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: After a month of protests, the life and work of an accomplished Palestinian artist will be featured in a theater in Bloomington, Ind. The show is called “Samia…

NPR’s Scott Simon talks with David Macklovitch and Patrick Gemayel of Chromeo about their new album, “Adult Contemporary,” and navigating modern love. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Adult contemporary can sometimes mean easy listening on the FM dial or R&B ballads from the ’70s or ’80s. But it’s taken on a whole new meaning for the electro…

NPR’s Scott Simon talks about the war in Gaza with Ophir Falk, a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Biden says he’s had recent extensive conversations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he’s urging Israel to hold off on plans to send troops to Gaza’s most crowded area. First,…

NPR’s Scott Simon asks Dusty Thompson, coach of the Winthrop University Eagles cornhole team, about scholarships for team athletes. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There’s a new kind of student athlete in the making. Winthrop University in South Carolina announced this week it’s awarding two scholarships to a couple of Colorado teenagers to play cornhole for the…