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John Lee was elected as Hong Kong's next leader Sunday by an election committee comprised of nearly 1,500 largely pro-Beijing members.

Pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Monday night — but the surviving members of the band, perhaps in true punk style, are refusing to attend. Madeleine Brand speaks with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, now a popular disk jockey at a Los Angeles radio station, about why the band has promised to be a no-show.

As people get more of their entertainment from the Internet, the amount of data flowing in and out of the house is going to grow. Telecommunications companies and communities are looking for ways to make "broadband" even broader -- and more affordable.

Egyptian journalist Hisham Kassem talks with Steve Inskeep about the status of Ayman Nour. Nour is a pro-democracy candidate who challenged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in last year's elections. He is in now jail after being charged with fraud by the government.

Commentator Jake Halpern introduces us to a Hollywood agent who exclusively represents dead celebrities. He finds endorsement deals for John Wayne and is responsible for getting Steve McQueen his own video game.

President Biden is back in Washington after visiting New Mexico for a briefing on wildfires which have now burned more than 900 square miles.

Rising gas prices and the war in Ukraine supercharged demand for mining to support electrifying the country's transportation grid, but some of it lies on land considered sacred to Native Americans.

Combat veteran Christy Barry has been working to help her former Afghan colleagues escape the Taliban — including a former brigadier general, who was a key U.S. ally and is on the run.

The Biden administration is dealing with the Ukraine crisis abroad and a sluggish health bureaucracy at home.

For some people attending the UN's COP26 conference in Scotland, climate change is not a future threat — they are seeing its impact on their homelands now.