NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to poet Raymond Antrobus about his new memoir, The Quiet Ear, and how he has navigated between the worlds of hearing and hearing loss.

The politics of air conditioning in France, as the country basks in yet another heatwave.

A Kenyan immigrant voluntarily left the U.S. this weekend. He has no criminal record but a prior marriage made him deportable, and he worried staying in the US would put him at risk.

A Gaza scholar at Yale lost his wife, children and mother in Israeli airstrikes. He's fighting to stay in the United States.