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KENNETH KAMLER, MD is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles: I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamlers day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. Hes done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

Wayne Carson was a prolific songwriter who hit the top of the country and pop charts. He was best known for songs that included "Always On My Mind," recorded by both Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson.

Olivia Rodrigo's third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, doesn't come out until June. But it's already off to a tremendous start on this week's Billboard charts.

On top of the small business loans and money for health care included in previous bills, the latest round of relief includes longtime Democratic priorities for lifting people out of poverty.

Alex Saab's extradition and the subsequent jailing of six American oil executives in Venezuela are a sign that relations between Washington and Caracas could be upended.

For Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst, the grill is a great way to add slow-cooked flavor to meat like brisket and pork ribs.

When you think of Father’s Day, there are the obvious cliches: steak, potatoes, burgers, ribs, chops. Meat. Lots and lots of meat. But many dads are interested in good health. So I started playing around with some of the cliche favorites.

Meghan Jensen of Mystic, Conn., is among 20 high school students competing in the National High School Recipe Contest in Denver, Colo. The students are vying for full scholarships to Johnson & Wales University. Jensen is competing in the dessert category. Her recipe is "Mystical Orange Berry Delight," a dessert in the shape of a sailboat and inspired by the Mystic Seaport area.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Joanne Freeman about her new book The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.

Thousands of migrants continue to stream across the U.S.-Mexico border every day. Some try to evade capture. Operation Identification helps to repatriate the remains of those who don't make it.