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If you’re a long-time All Things Considered listener, you will remember Melissa Block as the anchor paired with Robert Siegel for more than a decade -- from 2003 to 2015. Then, Melissa Block stepped away from the anchor desk to immerse herself in feature reporting. Over the course of her 32-year career at NPR, she has covered domestic and international news – including the 9/11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and the massive 2008 earthquake in China. In this conversation recorded in 2017, we hear about what it's like to cover tragic events and why she never imagined this career.

Over the last decade, more airlines have made goofy safety videos to keep passengers' attention. But do they really work?

When Ghosts Come Home is the first murder mystery that Wiley Cash has tackled, and on this edition of CoastLine, we find out why writing a mystery is a different kind of challenge. We also explore some of the themes around which the story turns: racial tension and white supremacy in the Cape Fear region.

The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire's second phase.

Sydney Penny is on the verge of launching her own film production company. Dubbed Cucklebur and Company, the enterprise is dedicated to telling as-yet untold stories originating from the American South.She’s claimed responsibility for her own destiny pretty much from the time she launched her career in entertainment: striding onto a stage while the performers were taking a break, grabbing the microphone, and singing a song. She was 3 ½ years old. The actual musical entertainers that night were her parents, who decided to go with it. And an actor was born.

For years, the U.S. government tried to encourage deaf people to study science. But the programs were just ended by the Trump Administration, leaving deaf students unsure about their future.

A Hong Kong court has handed 45 pro-democracy activists sentences of up to 10 years in jail for conspiracy to commit subversion.

Brown pelicans are appearing on California's coastline. They are showing up emaciated, starving and weak. Dr. Elizabeth Wood of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center of Orange County explains.

Dina Greenberg collects the stories of trauma survivors — particularly those of Holocaust victims and their descendants and Bosnian War survivors. She studies intergenerational trauma and the healing power of storytelling, and out of that work has come her first novel, Nermina's Chance.

John Bare's wife, Betsy, was one of more than six-hundred-thousand Americans who lost their life to Covid-19. After her death in 2020, Bare finished his first novel, began making ceramic pieces of pie in honor of her, and decided to share his grief through art — and an exploration of vulnerability.