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Shirley Yamauchi had to hold her 2-year-old on a flight from Houston to Boston, despite having bought him a ticket. United Airlines said it failed to properly scan the boy's boarding pass.

"Professional Muslim" Haroon Moghul says, "Every time something bad happens you're called upon to apologize. ... Your entire identity is pegged to events in other parts of the world."

Hand-painted billboards were part of a wave of outdoor advertising that was popularized in the 1800s. Today, the industry is growing again, in part because hand-painted billboards can now go viral online.

Longtime China watcher John Pomfret says President Trump's surprisingly friendly start to his relationship with China is now on shakier ground.

It's an album that features songs about car crashes and paranoid androids, but it's sold more than 4 million copies and is considered by some the greatest album of all time.

When the two presidents meet Friday, the world will be looking for clues to the future of the fraught U.S.-Russian relationship. "Putin needs the meeting more than Trump," says one Russia expert.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Candida Moss, professor of New Testament at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby. After Hobby Lobby was fined for smuggling artifacts out of Iraq, Moss talks about Hobby Lobby's unique business mission: to promote the bible.

The Trump administration hopes that China will help pressure North Korea to slow their nuclear program. But China has goals of its own. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Evan Medeiros, a former adviser to President Obama, about the view from China on the North Korea situation.

For an upcoming series of stories, we'd like to explore the world of taboos. And we welcome your suggestions.

Six months in, New Jersey's sweeping reforms have all but eliminated the use of cash bail in the Garden State. Advocates say that's good for low-income defendants. But it's an existential threat to the bail bonds industry.