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She scored a much-maligned hit at the age of 13 with "Friday." Now 25, Rebecca Black is finally releasing her debut album, Let Her Burn.

In an interview with NPR, the fired FBI director maintained he wouldn't do things differently if he had a chance. "I saw this as a 500-year flood," he said, "and so where is the manual?"

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Sarvat Hasin about her new novel Strange Girls and the complexities of friendship.

At 75, French chef Jacques Pepin has spent the greater part of his life in a kitchen savoring food. But he's not yet ready to put his career on the back burner. Today he's the author of 23 cookbooks and has hosted 12 cooking series. His latest cookbook will be released in October.

The Warped Tour is back this summer to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Barty is retiring only two months after winning the Australian Open, saying she wants to pursue other dreams.

It is not clear why the invitation has not been accepted, but those familiar with the exchange say the delay is unusual, considering that absentee ballots will go in the mail as soon as September.

Veterans Day was last week, and with it came a reminder of a World War 1 strategy. Britain's Daily Telegraph reported on the fake city France was creating in hopes German bombs wouldn't hit the real Paris. The sham city was never finished because the war ended.

New Zealand's endangered kakapo has a unique breeding cycle. Now, for the first time in four years, the parrots are in the mood.

Hurricane Katrina highlighted America's poverty and class division crisis. Some say raising the minimum wage is a logical first step toward change. Two experts examine a potential minimum wage increase: William Spriggs, senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, and Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author of Nickel and Dimed and the new book Bait and Switch.

As any parent knows, kids can be exhausting. The Surgeon General even warned recently that parental burnout was an urgent public health issue. So, what can parents do?

The AI-driven country music act Breaking Rust is climbing the charts. But will hardcore fans accept AI?

Alex Cohen checks in with Iowans at a barbershop, a coffee shop and the Huckabee headquarters. Politics, she discovers, does not go well with cutting hair.

As news outlets contract and falsehoods circulate online, researchers want to know if trusted community messengers can help link people to quality information.

Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be — raw — and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with soul singer KIRBY about her new album, Miss Black America, and how her Mississippi roots have shaped her music.

The Obama Foundation has raised more than $250 million to build the Obama Presidential Center. Key to the Foundation's mission are programs to train the next generation of civic leaders.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Eric Liu, co-founder of Citizen University, about how to coexist in community with people who vote differently.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Republican strategist and former top Mitt Romney aide, Katie Packer, about launching Our Principles PAC, a group aimed at blocking Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination.

Mama Nous writes children's lullabies and simple songs that acknowledge universal emotional truths and help people process their feelings. Kids love them, but so do adults.

It includes a $1.3 billion tax package backed by Gov. DeSantis. Democrats say the session did not address issues such as high insurance rates, skyrocketing rent costs and unaffordable health care.

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Historian Mary Beard says many of our popular notions about the empire are based on culture — like the play Julius Caesar or the film Gladiator — rather than fact. Her new book is called SPQR.

A 90-year-old woman from Coventry received the first vaccine shot as part of the United Kingdom's nationwide immunization campaign launched Tuesday.

California has adopted the toughest new rules in the country that require homeowners to manage the plants around their houses. Fire experts say it helps protect houses from burning, but public pushback has been strong.