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Just as the Mississippi River settles after washing out swaths of the South, the flooding elsewhere has just begun: A raging Missouri River in the northern Plains now will threaten parts of the Midwest well into the summer.

NPR's Steve Inskeep, who's in Beijing, talks to national security policy expert Elbridge Colby, about the Biden administration's foreign policy strategy with China.

Scott Simon talks with Lily Tuck about her new novel, "The Rest is Memory." Based on a real photograph, she imagines the life of a Polish girl killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Herculez Gomez, a former U.S. men's national team player and host at ESPN+, about current efforts to eradicate a homophobic chant from soccer stadiums in North America.

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.

Susan Davis talks with Mina Al-Lami, a BBC expert on extremist messaging, about the Taliban's concerted communications and public relations strategies.

The woman said that during the alleged assault, she tried to resist but Jay-Z told her to stop. She also acknowledged some inconsistencies in her account but firmly maintained that she was attacked.

Hit reality TV show Love is Blind brands itself as a social experiment in our image-obsessed world — but psychologists say that love can be influenced by many different things.

Born March 13, 1925, Haynes was a drummer who liked to prod his fellow players. Over the course of his career, he played with Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Chick Corea and many others.

The U.S. men's soccer team is advancing to the round of 16 in the World Cup. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN.com about the team's chance of getting through the knockout round.