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A new opera about the nature of wilderness will be performed outside this weekend at the Lewis and Clark Law School Amphitheater. Two Yosemites: An Environmental Opera, is being produced by Opera Theater Oregon. Justin Ralls, Co-Artistic Director, and composer of Two Yosemites, joins us.

The trail of Irma. Trump and tax reform. Equifax outrage. Hillary opens the book on her failed campaign. Our weekly news round table goes behind the headlines.

We'll look at the new fall TV season — it's pretty stacked.

The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.

The nuclear standoff with North Korea goes back decades. But it might be time for Washington to make some tough decisions.

Latino USA hits the road! Producers Zakiya Gibbons and Jeanne Montalvo, who both grew up in the South, take host Maria Hinojosa on a road trip through the heart of the South to learn first-hand what it's like to be Latino and Southern today, in a special 2-part series. In Part 1, we find out how Latinos helped Atlanta become a world-class city, visit a magical, taco-filled land called Plaza Fiesta, and hear one Latino family's story of what it was like to navigate the White-Black binary in a small Alabama town.

The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.

A musical based on the songs of 1970s singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg has launched in Nashville. It’s called “Part of the Plan.”

Amy Eskind of Nashville Public Radio spoke with its LA producers about why they created the show, and chose Nashville for the opening. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

Sen. Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D-NY), discusses her proposal to block the president's transgender military ban, her support for "Medicare for All" and how Democrats can work with the White House on immigration and tax reform. 

"I think the wall is stupid," Sen. Gillibrand said, "it's a waste of the tax payer's money. We need the money for job growth, infrastructure, 100 other things...it sends a bad message."