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A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 804 that crashed, reacts as she makes a phone call at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. Egyptian aviation officials say an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

An Egypt Air flight goes down at sea. Battle over Zika fight funding. The Democratic Party rift grows. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Hour 2
Moby in the WBUR studios. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Musician-DJ Moby is out with a new memoir. He’s with us in the studio.

 
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May 19, 2016
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth and are the best targets found so far for the search for life outside the Solar System. They are the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star. In this view one of the inner planets is seen in transit across the disc of its tiny and dim parent star.

New research finds lots of earth-like planets out there. We check in on the search for intelligent life in the universe.

 
May 19, 2016
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, line the streets outside Miami-Dade College before the Univision, Washington Post Democratic presidential debate,  Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Miami. Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt,  will debate days before the Florida primary on March 15. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

On the home stretch to a nominee. We’ll talk with Bernie Sanders supporters about how they see his candidacy, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the future now.

 
May 18, 2016
Vice President Joe Biden jokes with Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the TV show, “Veep,” as she sits at his desk in the Vice President's West Wing office at the White House, April 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

From “Scandal” to “Veep” to “House of Cards,” we’re asking what makes television’s political dramas and comedies so popular.

 
May 18, 2016
FILE - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, SEIU-UHW worker Kathy Santana, left, assists Ruben Torres, 27, during a health care enrollment event at the SEIU-UHW office in Commerce, Calif. Millions more Americans signed up to be covered under President Barack Obama's health care initiative, but controversy about "Obamacare" raged on. Criticism from Republicans in Congress was relentless, many GOP-governed states balked at participation, and opinion polls suggested most Americans remained skeptical about the program. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

The controversial Affordable Care Act has insured millions of Americans, but left many patients frustrated. We’ll look at Obamacare’s growing pains

 
May 17, 2016
Neon signs illuminate this payday loan business, one of 650 operating in the state and some open 24 a day, Tuesday, April 6, 2010, in Phoenix. Attempts to reauthorize the payday loan industry failed in both houses of the Arizona legislature on Wednesday, as the industry operates on a temporary exemption from Arizona's 36-percent interest rate cap, but that exemption ends on June 30. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Google is taking a stand, banning ads for short-term, payday loans. We’ll take a deep look at payday lending.

 
May 17, 2016
Opponents of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro take part in a demonstration in Caracas on May 14, 2016.
Venezuela braced for protests Saturday after Maduro declared a state of emergency to combat the "foreign aggression" he blamed for an economic crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of collapse. / AFP / FEDERICO PARRA        (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Two South American giants in crisis. Brazil and Venezuela. We’ll look at their ways ahead, from corruption to oppression to the Olympics.

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May 18, 2016
On Wednesday, millions of American workers who work more than 40 hours per week became eligible for overtime pay under a new rule from the Labor Department. We looked at the plan and the pushback. [Listen back]
 
May 5, 2016
The FDA is extending tobacco regulations to e-cigarettes and banning their sale to people younger than 18. The rise of e-cigarettes, and how they became the smoke of choice. [Listen back]
 
May 3, 2016
The Broadway mega-hit "Hamilton" has been given a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations. Why has Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical become one of the most popular theater productions of all time on Broadway? [Listen back]  
 
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‘Best Of’ 2016 Commencement Speeches
Monday, May 16, 2016

Excerpts from a few of the best commencement speeches delivered to the graduating class of 2016.

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Caller: Trump is a ‘Yankee moron,’ but I support him
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

“I’m a working man. I’ve worked 13, 14 hours every day. I got two jobs. I got three kids. I got a wife. You know, I’m not a misogynist.”

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Devoured: We Are What (And How) We Eat
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

From chicken wings to kale smoothies, we look at what we eat, and how challenging it is to eat well in America.

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‘Embedded’: How Violent Gangs Are Terrorizing El Salvador
Thursday, April 14, 2016

NPR’s Kelly McEvers on her reporting in El Salvador for the podcast Embedded, and how gang killings brought San Salvador’s bus service to a halt.

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