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After nearly 50 years in the music business, Neil Diamond is on top of the world. The singer has topped the U.S. and British album charts with his new release, Home Before Dark.

Singer Songwriter Dion. Hes just released a new record of doo-wop tunes Deja Nu (Collectables 2000). In the late 1950s, Dion and his band the Belmonts topped the chart with several pop hits, earning him the status of Teen idol. Dion split amicably with the band in 1960 and continued to write Top 10 hits until the British Invasion changed the pop preference. Now, in his 50s, he continues to produce, write and sing new material. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida. (ORIGINALLY AIRED 10

This means all three of the major credit rating companies of the world — the others being S&P Capital and Fitch — have now all moved the U.S down from the top rating.

President Obama did something no other holder of his office has ever had the life experience to do: As the first African-American president, he used the bully pulpit to explain black America to white America.

In a wide-ranging interview, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks President Obama about Russian interference in the U.S. election, executive power, the future of the Democratic party and his future role.

One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

Commentator Martha Ann Overland lives in India, and takes her kids to the US Embassy Club swimming pool. She learns that the class and racial divisions that have become taboo on most American soil, are still openly practiced by Americans abroad.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

Jockey Jimmy Winkfield was the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, 100 years ago this year. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Howard Berkes reports on Winkfield's legacy and the history of African Americans in horseracing.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks reports on ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. Companies that profit from the Prison boom sponsor ALEC, which in turn lobbies for tougher sentencing - thus bringing more profits to the corrections industry and its suppliers.