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The family of Kayla Mueller and the White House say the 26-year-old aid worker is dead.

Tortured and imprisoned under Saddam Hussein's regime, composer and oud player Rahim Alhaj — who resettled as a refugee in New Mexico — uses his work to tell true stories of Iraqis living through war.

By bus, by bike and by foot, they come to the aid of abused and displaced women in Colombia. And they've just won a $100,000 humanitarian prize for their efforts.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt said little and did less on behalf of Jews trying to get out of Nazi Germany; but he also won Jewish votes by landslide margins and led the Allies to victory in World War II. A new history by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman revises FDR's performance upward.

The situation is dire for hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees seeking shelter outside the nation's borders, but inside, the numbers are even higher. NPR's Kelly McEvers spent the night in one school, one of thousands, where families are taking cover from the shelling and fighting.

Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with Vali Nasr of Johns Hopkins University about allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own citizens, and whether this crosses a "red line" drawn by the Obama Administration.

The anti-apartheid hero has been a unifying force in South Africa, particularly for the ruling African National Congress. There's concern, however, that xenophobia, racism and political infighting may grow once the "father of the nation" dies.

The Florida Democrat says she believes her position as a political moderate and her family history as a refugee from Vietnam could help Democrats win a Senate seat. She has not yet decided on a run.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Romanian poet Claudiu Komartin. "We might have to invent some new words because of the atrocities," he says.

A report by Save the Children singles out northern Uganda as a center of childhood conscription by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group there. Eighteen years of civil war in the region have displaced approximately 2 million people. David McGuffin reports from Gulu in northern Uganda.