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Personal finance specialist, author and former trader Jill Schlesinger explains market timing--that is, trying to figure out when to buy and sell stock--and why it's a fool's errand.

For the men, women and families of Fort Carson, Colo., Sunday's attack on a Chinook helicopter in Iraq was the worst combat loss since the Vietnam War. The army base has lost 21 soldiers during U.S. operations in Iraq. One soldier killed in Sunday's attack, Sgt. Ernie Bucklaw, was headed home for his mother's funeral. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Fifteen American soldiers are dead and 21 wounded after a Chinook helicopter is apparently attacked near Fallujah, Iraq. It is the deadliest single strike against U.S. forces since the war began. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from the scene of the crash, and NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from the Pentagon on how weapons such as shoulder-fired rockets are easy to come by.

Download 10 songs from our favorite acts out of SXSW, including Future Islands, PHOX, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Ages and Ages, and much more.

The flagship jazz band of Venezuelan youth music education program El Sistema presents both American jazz masters and Venezuelan composer. It performs at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Hear one of the intrepid violinist's 22 commissioned works, focusing on the harrowing year that was 2020.

A new documentary charts the attempts of a trio of American climbers to be the first to scale Meru Peak, a 21,000-foot Himalayan peak. Critic David Edelstein says Meru is "cunning" — and terrifying.

"You don't get to shoot somebody 21 times," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter in April. "I cannot defend that."

On Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo program's second manned spaceflight lifted off from Earth to orbit the moon. Many people still remember the greetings from astronauts, sent from space.

One survivor said a priest forced her to have abortions after raping her. The pope said he has come up with 21 "reflection points" designed to address the crisis.