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A false color view of Uranus made from images taken by Voyager 2 in January 1986.

Opinion: Uranus was having a bad hair day. Hey, it was the '80s!

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the planet 38 years ago.

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  • Scott Simon
From left: Michelle Salaün, Jeannine Plassard and Marie-Annick Gouez, the daughters of Catherine Tournellec Salaün, stand at their mother's grave in Plabennec, in France's Brittany region, in June.

In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: a murder and sexual assault so traumatic they are only now coming to terms with it.

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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Montgomery County, Maryland is currently meeting at the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew, after their building suffered a fire. It is one example of interfaith cooperation in the most religiously diverse county in the country.

This county is the most religiously diverse in the U.S.

This stretch of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland is so packed with houses of worship, it's been called the Embassy Row of Religions. But locals know it as the Highway to Heaven.

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  • Sarah Ventre

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Scott Simon
Scott Simon
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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.

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