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Brazilians vote Sunday in the second round of a presidential election that has riven the nation. The front runner is a far-right candidate who has used misogynistic, racist and homophobic language.

Law enforcement sources say they have made an arrest in the suspicious packages that were being sent to prominent Democrats and their supporters.

Eleven people were killed and six were injured after a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The attack is being investigated as a hate crime.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor David Shribman about how the shooting of 11 worshippers at The Tree of Life synagogue is being felt in the city.

David Greene talks to Tony Medina, professor of creative writing at Howard University, about Ntozake Shange, who wrote: "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf."

Steve Inskeep talks to Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., Gerónimo Gutiérrez, about his country offering refugees temporary work permits if they stay in southern Mexico and don't continue to the U.S.

Jair Bolsonaro — a former army captain who expressed his admiration for dictatorship and repeatedly denigrated women and gays — looks certain to become the country's new president.

Recently, several thousand U.S. soldiers made a pit stop in Iceland on their way to a NATO exercise. Local breweries reportedly had to rush emergency reserves to the thirsty mob.

Steve Inskeep talks to Bari Weiss, an opinion writer for The New York Times, who grew up in Squirrel Hill — down the street from where the synagogue shooting took place on Saturday.

Dave Wakeling is still touring like a man 30 years his younger. He recently recorded a new studio album, Here We Go Love.