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From classic Westerns to racy romances, horses carry so many beloved books. Here are 10 four-legged tales to take you all over the globe.

Most deaths were in Lee County, where local officials delayed hurricane evacuations until the day before the storm hit. Leaders in other nearby counties ordered evacuations a day earlier.

South Korea's parliament voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo. This move comes less than two weeks after lawmakers impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.

From Lovers RocktoThe Good Lord Bird, the titles on John Powers' year-end list didn't simply distract; they also delved into enduring questions of freedom, dignity and survival.

As the businessman who built a network of McDonald's franchises while nastily — and gleefully — disenfranchising his business partners, Keaton exudes a sleazy brio.

In Blue Caprice, the onetime Grey's Anatomystar portrays a man modeled on one of the 2002 Beltway snipers. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the challenges of humanizing a character capable of the inhuman.

2:Actor DANNY AIELLO (eye-EL-oh). He starred in "Moonstruck," and "Do the Right Thing" and "Ruby," about Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. AIELLO's latest film is "City Hall." He talks with Terry about acting. He used to be an official with the New York transit union and quit it when he was 35 to take up acting. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 3

The attorney of David Kaczynski, the brother of the man suspected of being the Unabomber, described the family's efforts in the case. Attorney Tony Bisceglie (Biss-SEGG-lee) told reporters that David had begun to suspect the possibility of his brother's involvement in the Unabomb case last summer, because Theodore had written letters and articles with themes and phraseology similar to the Unabomber, and because he had lived in parts of the country associated with the Unabomber. Bisceglie said that after the Unabomber's manifesto was published last year, David worked with a private investigator and a former FBI behaviour analyst before he went to the FBI. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with journalist Jim Robbins about the latest developments in the wildfires in Montana. Evacuation orders were lifted south of Helena and as many as 270 families can return home. FEMA director James Lee Witt toured fire damage yesterday and promised federal money. However, danger still looms for many families just outside of Helena including that of Jim Robbins. Robbins , who has been reporting on the fires for the New York Times. New fires are just eight miles from his door.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that a number of former military officials are waging a high-profile campaign to pressure the United States to seek the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Retired Air Force General George Lee Butler today called for such a policy and said that nuclear weapons are costly, dangerous and indefensible. He had been the commander of the U.S. nuclear arsenal before retiring. Sixty generals and admirals from around the world are expected to release a statement tomorrow also calling for the reduction of nuclear arms.

Robert speaks with Vivian Ducat (DOO-cat), writer and producer of "The American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen," which documents the life of Queen Liliuokalani (LIH-lee-oo-oh-kah-LAH-nee.) The queen was overthrown by United States Marines in 1893, but always trusted that she would be returned to the throne one day. Although President Cleveland's envoy, J.H. Blount, recommended that she be reinstated, she never was. Liliuokalani wrote many songs that have become universally associated with Hawaii, including "Aloha Oe".

Linda talks with Colonel Terry Leedom (LEE-dum), the Director of Public Affairs for The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina which recently opened its doors to women. The Citadel has just released its guidelines for admitting women and for the conduct of its cadets. These rules cover everything from living arrangements to shower arrangements to the kinds of makeup the new cadets may wear. For example, Leedom says that women's hair must be short, but not shaved, like the men's hair. He also says that the women will wear men's uniforms until the Citadel figures how many skirts it needs to buy.

Noah talks with Lee Mueller, Lexington Herald Eastern Kentucky Bureau Reporter, about life in the region after one of the worst environmental disasters to hit the Southeastern U.S. A holding pond, containing sludge created in the process of coal washing, broke, sending the toxic mess into streams and rivers. Mueller says clean-up is really just beginning and it won't be easy. The A.T. Massey company is responsible for the spill, and has hired workers to do the clean up.

The chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission, Tom Kean, and vice-chair Lee Hamilton have written the new book, Without Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. The two write about the challenges of completing their work on the commission with little money, a tight timeline, constant wrangling to gain access to classified documents, and the necessity of forging a consensus among Republican and Democratic commissioners.

Politico's Philip Shenon says Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK led to a law stating all documents about the Kennedy assassination must be released by October 2017. Three hundred new pages just came out.

Some people say Congress should invest in better paid and higher qualified staff. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with one of them, Lee Drutman, senior fellow in political reform at think tank New America.

North Korea says it's experiencing its first COVID outbreak. Experts are skeptical, but they are also wondering if this means the country will accept outside help or if it can handle it alone.

South Korean scientists announced Wednesday they have created the first cloned dog. Snuppy, an Afghan hound, was born in April. The cloning technique used is not efficient. It took nearly 2,000 eggs to make some 1,000 embryos -- all of which produced just one healthy puppy.

Dozens of tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, TikTok and Meta, are cutting jobs. It's the latest sign that Silicon Valley is still trying to adjust from the boom times of the pandemic.

In the wake of 9/11, Congress approved two measures giving the president expansive war powers. The House voted to repeal one of those measures, the 2002 authorization of force in Iraq.