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President Biden has blamed the death on Vladimir Putin. Mr Navalny’s wife said Mr Putin would be held responsible. Show more President Biden has blamed the death on Vladimir Putin. Mr Navalny’s wife said Mr Putin would be held responsible. Despite official warnings against protests, hundreds of people have been leaving flowers in central Moscow…

World record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum died on Sunday. Kenya has been celebrating the life and explosive career of the 24-year old marathon runner. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Kenya has been celebrating the career and life of marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum, who went from borrowing running shoes to breaking world records. Kenyans are mourning his…

The cargo ship Genco Picardy was hit by a low-grade missile in the Gulf of Aden in January. In recent months, the Houthis, a tribal militant group from Yemen, have launched attacks on ships in response, they say, to Israel’s war in Gaza. Indian Navy/AP The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. None of…

Eric Klinenberg, professor in the social sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed (Knopf, 2024), tells the story of New York in 2020 through the lens of seven New Yorkers, and talks about the ongoing…

All this week, as part of the launch of the 2024 Public Song Project, we’re debuting contributions from professional musicians and friends of WNYC. To wrap up the launch, we hear a song from Brooklyn supergroup Coco and speak to bandmember Maia Friedman. Afterwards, we’re joined again by musicology professor Anna Celenza to talk about Tin Pan Alley…

Secret spells. Magic potions. The world of witchcraft has a powerful cultural hold and a dark history. What do centuries of witch trials teach us? Today, On Point: Fear, conspiracy, gender — and the long legacy of witch trials. Guests Marion Gibson, professor of renaissance and magical literature at the University of Exeter. She’s written…

Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner Alexei Navalny has died. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker staff writer and the author of Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, 2020), digests this news and offers analysis as Putin’s war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary. Read the full article here

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, pictured at a White House briefing on Wednesday, spoke to Morning Edition about Russia’s anti-satellite capability, U.S. aid to Ukraine and reports of the death of Alexei Navalny. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images It’s been a busy week for news involving the U.S., Ukraine and Russia. It started with the Senate passing…

Donald Trump made waves with a speech at a campaign rally in South Carolina last week. The former president recalled an encounter with a leader of a NATO country, where he threatened to withhold U.S. protection from Russia if the country didn’t make adequate financial contributions to the alliance. Is it an example of the…

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty looks back to 1982 and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan as he considers how and why the U.S. should intervene to prevent an Israeli assault on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Guest Jack Beatty, On Point‘s news analyst. He was a longtime senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Author of Age of…