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U.S. airlines have canceled flights to Israel after reports of Hamas rockets landing near Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv.

British elites and wannabes behave badly in Elizabeth Day's sharp new novel, "One of Us." NPR's Scott Simon talks with Day about her privileged and deeply flawed characters.

Ben Lecomte wants to be the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean — a 5,500-mile journey. Doctors will monitor his heart remotely to see how intensive exercise affects this vital muscle.

Kelly McEvers talks to Ben Rhodes, President Obama's deputy national security adviser, about White House foreign policy following the brutal killing of an American journalist by Islamist militants.

Former Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark has had a bumpy start to her WNBA career. NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Pickman of The Athletic.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman profiles the three U.S. Army Rangers who were killed in an apparent suicide bombing while trying to help a pregnant Iraqi woman. The three -- Army Capt. Russell Rippetoe, Spc. Ryan Long and Staff Sgt. Nino Livaudais -- were from Fort Benning, Ga. April 8, 2003

Independent Producer Ben Shapiro brings us the latest installment in the New York Works series about occupations that are gradually disappearing from the nation's largest city. Today, Cali Rivera tells us about his business making cowbells at his workshop in the Bronx.

If some of Barack Obama's fundraising techniques seem familiar, it may because they're so much like the ones public broadcasters have used for decades. Ben Calhoun of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Linda talks with Ben Ginsburg, National Council for Bush/Cheney 2000, who is in Tallahassee, Florida. Ginsburg talks about the Bush appeal of the Florida Supreme Court decision to the US Supreme Court, how things are likely to progress over the holiday weekend, and the separate issue of counting military absentee ballots.

A group led by Sony confirms that it has agreed to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for nearly $5 billion. The deal would include the studio's vast library of films. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Variety reporter Ben Fritz.