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NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

The crust of this year's prize winning buttermilk pie may have been store bought. Fair officials are investigating.

Former Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker died on Thursday at age 88. Baker was one of the key players in Ronald Reagan's historic tax and spending cuts.

A new report says ranch is the salad dressing of choice in cafeterias and restaurants in the U.S. Its sales and shipments are double that of the No. 2 dressing: blue cheese.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

Israel's attack on Iran sparked the biggest jump in crude oil prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. Stocks fell sharply.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

The former president is in Egypt to observe its first free presidential election, which begins on Wednesday.

Buckley says she for the "shadowy bits" of her characters. John Powers reviews the Japanese film Kokuho. Documentarian Morgan Neville chronicles Paul McCartney's transformation in Man on the Run.

Renee Montagne plays back a hip hop version of the Morning Edition theme submitted by the hip-hop group Jazzy Triggs. (This piece originally aired on May 26, 2016 on Morning Edition.)