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Linda Wertheimer talks with Samantha Newport, a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and BBC World Service; she is in Quito, Ecuador. Newport talks about the release of the foreign oil workers who had been kept hostage in the Amazon for four-and-a-half months. One hostage was killed three weeks ago when the ransom demands were not met. The remaining seven were released after their companies paid the $13 million ransom. Four of them are from the United States.

Scott, who divorced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, has given away more than $12 billion to nearly 1,200 groups.

The Florida Gators are the men's NCAA basketball champions. They won their first national basketball title by beating UCLA 73-57. Steve Inskeep speaks with USA Today columnist Christine Brennan about the game in Indianapolis. Also, she previews the women's final in Boston between Duke and Maryland.

Also: Amazon is reportedly delaying the shipment of Hachette books for periods of several weeks; Oyster has partnered with 500 new publishers.

Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked up at Walmart, Target, Spirit Halloween, and especially Amazon.

The 65-team NCAA men's basketball tournament begins this week. Defending champion Florida, North Carolina, Ohio State, and Kansas are the top seeds. In picking this year's at-large teams, the selection committee favored clubs from the power conferences.

Northern Virginia guitarist Yasmin Williams shares how the Tiny Desk Contest changed her life — despite entering it twice and never winning.

For the first time this century, two No. 1 seeds didn't make it to NCAA women's basketball's Sweet 16. And teams who geared up with transfers are challenging historically dominant programs.

The Amazon Prime series returns Friday full of satire, superheroes and subversion. It's a funhouse mirror reflection of the racism, xenophobia, criminality and political posturing of our real world.

Strikes and organizing efforts at big companies such as Amazon, Starbucks and John Deere have generated new enthusiasm about the prospects for organized labor. But the numbers tell a different story.