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Tom Manoff reviews a new CD by the Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin that features exciting performances of some less than famous composers. The CD is Ouvertueren (Overtures): Music for the Hamburg Opera is on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass before crowds in St. Peter's Square for the first time since the pandemic, Pope Francis called for a truce.

Citing "increasing reports of Ukrainian women feeling at risk from their sponsors," the U.N.'s refugee agency is urging U.K. officials to refine the matching process for its Homes for Ukraine program.

Rep. Ted Budd, who has former President Donald Trump's endorsement, easily won the North Carolina GOP Senate primary, the AP reports. He will face Democrat Cheri Beasley in November.

It is a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war. Three years into the Iraq war, the U.S. military admits it has learned that the hard way. At Fort Irwin, soldiers are trained in new counterinsurgency tactics in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.

On any given day, hundreds of thousands of U.S. military veterans find themselves sleeping on the streets. Farai Chideya visits a Southern California intervention program for homeless veterans.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on how parents have felt hard times compounding for the last several years between pandemic disruptions and inflation, and now fears over school shootings.

While Britons might be happy to see their prime minister go, Ukrainians hold him in higher regard.

Robert Harris' new novel features a once-popular former British prime minister who becomes fiercely criticized for collaborating with the United States in war. The character's name is Adam Lang, not Tony Blair, but otherwise the similarities are unmistakable.

In 2014, metal still believes in traditions and keeps the faith, but recognizes that evolution is inevitable — with some of its defenders kicking and screaming.