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Tuesday was busy day at the Supreme Court, as it handed down a decision that could ensure long-term detentions for immigrants and heard arguments in an email privacy case that seemed to have the justices leaning against Microsoft.

As the House Oversight Committee releases new documents related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the ties Epstein had to Trump are once again in the spotlight.

Amnesty International USA is demanding an investigation into what it says is a lackluster response by Justice Department officials to the 6,000-page Senate torture report released in 2014.

Actor Richard Bauer reads excerpts from John Hersey's "Hiroshima," an account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of that city. "Hiroshima" was originally an entire issue of THE NEW YORKER magazine (August 1, 1946) and was later published in book form.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on an angry public debate over whether pedophiles should be publicly identified. Street mobs have forced wrongly accused men into hiding. Police blame lurid accounts of pedophile crimes in the tabloid press.

A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.

An ancient fraternity of assassins, a timid accountant, and Angelina Jolie — in a summer-movie mishmash from the director of the head-trippy vampire opus Night Watch.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer review news accounts from around the world about the Atlanta Olympics - and the problems the foreign press corps has reported on... problems both large and small.