• Documentary challenges credit for Vietnam War photo of 'napalm girl'

  Fifty-three years ago, the devastating impact of the Vietnam War was captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the "napalm girl." A documentary raises questions about who took the photo.

  • Mandalit del Barco
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  Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use

  Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: "Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."

  • Rachel Treisman
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  This colorful mystery of Ancient Egypt was just solved in Washington state

  Scientists at Washington State University not only discovered how to recreate the color known as "Egyptian Blue," they also found this ancient pigment has potential modern uses that its inventors may not have realized.

  • Natalie Akane Newcomb

• Author Christopher Leonard discusses the rise of the U.S. defense industry after WWII

  As part of our series on the world that America made after World War II, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Christopher Leonard about the rise of the U.S. defense industry post-1945.

  • Steve Inskeep
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  Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans

  A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

  • Alina Selyukh

• 'It girl' golfer remembered, decades after her death

  She was called the IT girl of women's golf in the Great Gatsby era.  Miriam Burns won the 1927 Women's Amateur championship.  She retired fromcompetitive golf in 1930 when she was 26, died at 47 and was laid to rest in an unmarked Kansas city grave.  That all changes on May 30th when a headstone will be placed on her grave  during a memorial service that will include golf great Tom Watson and family members of Burns only grandson

  • Greg Echlin
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  Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young

  Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

• Experts putting together Revolutionary War-era ship found at World Trade Center site

  Fifteen years ago, archaeologists at the World Trade Center site discovered a ship, deep in the muck, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Now they're putting it back together.

  • Jon Campbell

• Throughline: The birth of the modern federal civil service

  The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern federal civil service.

  • Rund Abdelfatah
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  Remembering the only predominantly Black, all-women U.S. military unit to serve overseas in WWII

  This Memorial Day, we’re remembering the legacy of the WWII era unit, the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion. It was the only predominantly Black, all-women’s U.S. military unit to serve overseas, and is also the subject of a recent Netflix movie. Their mission was to sort through a backlog of more than 17 million pieces of mail and to deliver it to war-weary soldiers scattered across Europe, longing for words of encouragement from home.

  • Angela King

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