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Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of the award-winning novel, Pennies from Burger Heaven. I love being a Radio Reader for High Plains Public Radio’s Book Club.I’m typically more of a fiction gal myself, but I enjoyed How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher.

One of the world's most treasured foods comes from an unlikely source — a sturgeon farm on a kibbutz in northern Israel. The prized sturgeon eggs — or osetra caviar, if you must — fetches a hefty price and has a top-chef following.

Israel is lobbying against calls for an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council, following Tuesday's visit by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to a sensitive holy site.

The Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters tells the story of Olfa Hamrouni's two eldest daughters, who disappeared to join ISIS. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with the director Kaouther Ben Hania.

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was kidnapped, beaten, doused in gasoline and burned to death in 2014. It escalated tensions during the lead-up to that summer's Gaza war.

Two of journalism's greats died within a couple days of each other — Ben Bradlee and Frank Mankiewicz. NPR's Scott Simon remembers them for their shared gifts of charm, wit and street smarts.

As the former Israeli prime minister returns to power, he's expected to give a post to a politician once convicted of inciting racism — whom the Biden administration might choose not to engage with.

The remaining Republican presidential candidates have been making their case at the party's state convention. Capital Public Radio's Ben Adler explains the divisions on display among Republicans.

In "Braiding Sweetgrass" we are embraced with the democracy in coexisting with nature. The regard for all other creatures, animal and plant as equal members of the tribe of earth dwellers, the grateful occupants of Turtle Island, our world.

New campaign fundraising numbers are out, and they show Bernie Sanders on pace with Hillary Clinton. For Republicans, Ben Carson was the big winner. NPR's Robert Siegel learns more from correspondent Peter Overby.