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The education world is watching the GOP tax proposals closely, in our weekly roundup.

The current version of the Farm Bill includes House-backed provisions that would streamline logging projects on federal land. The administration argues logging could mitigate wildfire risk.

PG&E, whose equipment started some of California's deadliest fires, proposes burying power lines in some areas. Local regulators have pushed back, citing costs. (Story aired on ATC on Nov. 1, 2023.)

Actor Jerry Orbach, best known for his long-running role as Lennie Briscoe on TV's Law and Order, died Tuesday at age 69. Orbach also enjoyed a successful Broadway career, winning a Tony for his role in Promises, Promises, and appeared in films such as Crimes and Misdemeanors and Dirty Dancing. We listen to a Nov. 21, 1989, interview with Orbach.

Hundreds of people are still being plucked daily from the roofs of their homes or other buildings in New Orleans as the Coast Guard and U.S. military conduct the largest airlift operation in the nation's history. But some residents are defying calls to leave the city.

Producers/writers/directors Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg. Their new documentary film Promises takes a look at the Palestinian-Isreali conflict thru the eyes of seven children living in or near Jerusalem. It was filmed between 1997 and the summer of 2000. SHAPIRO grew up in Berkeley, California and hosts and co-writes the award-winning travel series, Lonely Planet. Goldberg was born in Boston and grew up outside of Jerusalem and has been a television journalist. Promises was broadcast on PBS last December as part of the P.O.V. series.

How did a small group of Islamic students go from local vigilantes to the Taliban? It is one of the most infamous and enigmatic forces in the world.

Teddy Wayne's new novel begins as a sharply observed novel of manners, but quickly mutates into a classic tale of obsession. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Loner a powerful suspense story.

A new video casts Donald Trump as a Messiah-like figure. NPR's Steve Inkseep unpacks its meaning with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of Public Religion Research Institution (PRRI).

The justices seemed sympathetic to $12 billion in insurance firms' claims. The Affordable Care Act promised to partially reimburse insurers if they lost money due to people's preexisting conditions.