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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Nolan Gasser, chief musicologist and architect of Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project about his book Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste.

If confirmed, the 48-year-old judge will solidify the court's conservative majority. Barrett said her judicial philosophy reflects that of her mentor, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

While President Trump spoke in Shanksville, Pa., Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden bumped elbows with Vice President Pence in New York. Biden is traveling to Shanksville later in the day.

"These people are not under federal quarantine orders," Dr. Chris Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jimmy Jean-Louis, a Haitian activist and actor who has been calling attention to the recent surge of violence and kidnappings in his country.

Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said what happened to George Floyd last May was "so simple that a child could understand it." Blackwell quoted a 9-year-old witness who said, "Get off of him."

Colombians elect the country's first leftist president and first Black woman to be vice president.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Tim Heidecker about his music, his new sentimental album High School and about his sometimes crass comedy.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Louis Virelli, a law professor at Stetson University in Florida, about whether Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves from certain cases.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, about inflation's economic and political challenges, and the Biden administration's plans to curb price hikes.