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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Lesley Blume about her new book, Fallout, which explores how reporter John Hersey uncovered the effects of the atomic bomb after the U.S. dropped it on Hiroshima.

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Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators. But some hospitals are now reporting mortality lower than 30%.

While tens of thousands of KKK members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1925, the marches and rallies held in D.C. since then have seen far more counter-protesters than actual white supremacists.

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Despite wanting to see the D.C. General family homeless shelter closed, some homeless advocates say Mayor Muriel Bowser's plan to do so this year could cause more problems than it solves.

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Rev. Kenneth Nixon Jr. documents his experience being born to a parent with severe mental illness in a new memoir.

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