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In Oakland, Calif., Chinatown residents have been targeted with robberies and anti-Asian abuse. They decided to fight back with volunteer patrols, and their presence is helping to deter crime.

Many of the picks from Fresh Air's book critic look back at tough times from earlier eras, or lives upended by disaster. The best books of the year include a work of nonfiction that reveals the hidden fantasy land of a founder of American industry, and a novel that doesn't apologize for the bad behavior of its characters. Plus, a bonus mystery pick.

As the war in Ukraine approaches its first-year mark, NPR's Scott Simon talks with former NATO staffer and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Davis Jr. about the next phase of the conflict.

Wind chill warnings and advisories are in place for parts of the northern United States as regions see temperatures settle in the single digits.

Ted Koppel, senior news analyst, discusses his upcoming documentary The Price of Security. The project explores the rights and freedoms Americans have sacrificed in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks. It airs Sunday on the Discovery Channel.

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.

Nathan Wolfe travels to the viral hot spots of the world, where viruses first jump from animals to humans. The scientist spends his days tracking emerging infectious diseases before they turn into global pandemics.

After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to lead a group of mayors, governors and CEOs in cutting emissions according to the Paris framework. And now Bloomberg also has a film out documenting coal's rise and fall in America, From the Ashes.

Is Israel prepared for a possible war with Hezbollah and Iran while fighting in Gaza? NPR’s Michel Martin talks with a former head of Israel's Defense Intelligence Amos Yadlin.