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Carmen Schentrup was among those killed in last year's Parkland school shooting. Now her family has moved away.

Freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been outspoken in interviews and on social media since winning her seat.

Terry talks with Franklin Foer, national correspondent for The Atlantic. And they’ll discuss the latest news about the Mueller investigation and Paul Manafort.

Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler listened to four years' worth of audio that Amazon had captured and stored from his Alexa smart speaker. He was surprised by what he found.

DAVE DAVIES, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week.

As candidates begin to emerge and maneuver for the 2020 election, we're going to revisit a presidential nomination battle that took place when the country was in the throes of changes that shook Americans' confidence in their government and their faith in the future.

For many years, U.S. immigration favored immigrants from northern Europe. NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten explains how a 1965 law changed things — and led to the current debate about border security.

The last two presidents from the Democratic Party, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, put in place policies designed to curb illegal immigration.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has offered a blanket denial of accusations against him. He's offered some details of his personal life, and in an interview last night on Fox, he spoke of his testimony expected before the Senate later this week.

On the next Morning Edition, The Supreme Court must decide if a controversial citizenship question should be added to the 2020 census.

The head of the CIA says she wants more officers in foreign countries.

Michael Cohen said he regrets lying to Congress on behalf of President Trump, then made serious allegations against the President.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller says that his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election was thorough, and that his investigation into President Trump's involvement was done by the book.

Brett Kavanaugh is ready to respond to Christine Blasey Ford's accusations of sexual assault in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Heidi Schreck, wrote and stars in a new play whose title is both serious and tongue-in-cheek, reflecting how the play itself is both serious and funny.

More than two months since an Ebola outbreak was declared in an eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials are still struggling to end it.

So far at least 130 people have been infected.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Howard Stern described my interview with him as exhausting. We talked a long time because there was so much to talk about - too much to fit in one show.

Looking back on his early career, Howard Stern remembers being "petrified" that he wasn't going to be able to make a living. "All the sexual antics, the religious antics, the race antics — everything that I talked about, every outrageous thing that I did — was to entertain my audience and grow my audience," he says.

A caravan of Central American migrants is waiting on the Mexico side of the border for their asylum claims to be processed in the U-S.

President Trump is threatening to close the border and has plans to cut Central American aid.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The very latest news development is rarely the most important development and sometimes not even a development. Yesterday, shortly before 11 o'clock in the morning Eastern Time, the political world was convulsed with news that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had been fired or maybe that he had quit.

I'll say this much for the breezy but dispiriting musical romance Yesterday: It has a clever conceit that it doesn't make the mistake of trying to explain. What explanation could there be for how The Beatles suddenly vanished from history, leaving behind only one lonely fan who remembers some of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs ever written? Like a lot of surreal comic fantasies, the movie just invites you to shrug and go along with its cheerfully ridiculous premise.

Things are looking bright for pessimists these days — the world has caught up with their sense of gloom. Well over half of those living in the developed world think their countries are heading in the wrong direction, away from the prosperity and stability that people over age 40 once took for granted.

Border Patrol agents say they're struggling to care for large groups of migrant families who turn themselves in after crossing at remote stretches of the southern border.

While raising her young daughter as a single mother, Stephanie Land cleaned houses through an agency to scrape by. It was back-aching work and the pay — $8.55 an hour to start; $9.25 an hour two years in — just wasn't enough.

Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie's first novel featuring fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

An acutely observant crime-solver in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot has since been played on screen by such actors as Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov and, most famously, David Suchet, who starred in Poirot, a lengthy series presented in the U.S.