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The Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a challenge to a Texas law requiring adults to verify their identity before accessing porn online.

Charlotte Rampling takes the lead in the story of a couple whose long and stable union is thrown off-balance by news that dredges up the past.

The first six issues of Shutter have been released as a trade paperback, and critic Etelka Lehoczky praises the comic's decidedly pointed take on classic exploration and adventure narratives.

Journalist Kate Bartlett speaks with Elissa Nadworny about what Desmond Tutu meant to the people of South Africa and the fight for social justice more broadly.

Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA, talks to NPR's Scott Simon about her fairy tale on climate change and reads passages from the story.

Kate Seelye reports on the birthplace of Syria's late President Hafez Al Assad, the small town of Qurdaha. Residents experienced considerable progress during Assad's lifetime. They hope Assad's son, Bashar, will be Syria's next President, because he's likely to continue to give the town favorable treatment.

As Labor Day approaches, the country's unions are finding strength in numbers once again - thanks to changes in organizing and tactics, as several recent contract negotiations have pointed out. Frank talks with Cornell University Professor and labor expert Kate Bronfenbrenner, who surveys the scene.

NPR's Anne Garrels tells the story of documentary filmmaker Kate Wenner's last months with her father as he was battling stomach cancer. In the course of videotaping hours of conversations, her father confessed a traumatic family secret that had haunted him since childhood.

The arrest of an internationally repected democracy and human rights activist, has generated fear within Egypt's community of human rights watchers who see it as a warning to critics of the government. Kate Seelye speaks with Saad Eddin Ibrahim immediately after his release.

UN Peacekeeping forces have begun to deploy along Israel's the border with Lebanon. Since the Israeli troop pull-out earlier this year, the border strip had been under the control of the Hizbollah Guerillas. Reporter Kate Seelye has more on what the arrival of peaccekeeping forces mean for the people of Southern Lebanon.