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#NPRreads: Make A Wager On These 3 Stories This Weekend

Asma Khalid, Jordan-Marie Smith, Wright Bryan

Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Hotels and apartment buildings line the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The head of a sports travel agency specializing in packages for the Rio 2016 Olympics said that the company's business could be devastated if the Zika virus continues to spread.

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#NPRreads: 4 Eye-Opening Stories To Read This Weekend

Wright Bryan, Elissa Nadworny , Joe Ruiz, Didrik Schanche

A medical mystery that started in Brazil. Nairobi's bustling food scene. Women and guns. And the man behind a new literary movement.

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#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Check Out This Weekend

Dana Farrington, Chuck Holmes, Wright Bryan

Read about how robots could save the Great Barrier Reef, why Americans work so much, and what art projects veterans are making to help them recover from post-traumatic stress disorder.

National headlines

#NPRreads: Lying About Sept. 11, And California's Drought-Stricken Levees

Kirk Siegler, Wright Bryan, Lori Todd

Also this week: What Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath teach us about the true nature of America.

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#NPRReads: Gun Laws And Mass Shootings

Martin Kaste, Alyssa Edes, Carline Watson, Wright Bryan

Also this week, the Charleston shooting and forgiveness, cause and effect, and female janitors and rape.

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#NPRreads: Wealthier Grays And The Intersection Of Race And Guns

Domenico Montanaro, Edith Chapin, Carrie Johnson, Wright Bryan

This week's selection of articles and essays covers a surprising economic fact about seniors, the psychological damage done to juveniles in solitary and a look at the South Carolina church shooting.

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#NPRreads: Losing A Loved One To Cancer

Tanya Ballard Brown, Joanna Kakissis, Sarah Gilbert, Wright Bryan

Also this week, IUDs in Colorado, kinky hair and ideas of beauty, and the fate of Dixie.