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Star Wars fans are gathering this week for the annual Star Wars Celebration fan convention in Anaheim, Calif.

A new comedy program — The Big Gay Sketch Show — debuts Tuesday night on the gay-themed cable network Logo. The show adds a gay subtext to TV classics such The Honeymooners and The Facts of Life.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Republican strategist Rina Shah about the release of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, including a birthday book with a lewd letter allegedly signed by Trump.

One family runs India's Congress Party. The party heads the coalition government and is battling to stay in power. Voting begins this week in India's general election, so the family is going around the country campaigning. But there's a family feud.

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum was given rare access to John Lennon just 10 days before the artist was killed. He discusses his decision to wait 27 years to publish the intimate photos he shot of Lennon and Yoko Ono.

For most of the world, Cary Grant was a Hollywood icon, but to Jennifer Grant he was simply Dad. Grant chronicles her close relationship with her father in her new book, Good Stuff.

Two of journalism's greats died within a couple days of each other — Ben Bradlee and Frank Mankiewicz. NPR's Scott Simon remembers them for their shared gifts of charm, wit and street smarts.

Plastic straws make up an alarming percentage of waste around the world. Bon Appetit, a large food service company, announced Thursday it is banning plastic straws in all 1,000 of its cafes across the U.S.

To devotees of the Grateful Dead, the first nine days of August are known as the "Days Between." This annual celebration commemorates the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia.

Climate researchers have long grappled with how to get Americans to eat less beef, a food with a huge global warming impact. Now some are thinking about it through the lens of gender.

In an episode about finding the strength to ease up, Ted tries to settle into therapy, Keeley tries to find a moment alone, and Nate just tries to find new people to make him feel important.

From Rhysand in A Court of Thorns and Roses to Kingfisher in "Fae and Alchemy," Anthony Palmini is a voiceover star for romantasy's bestsellers — a book genre that continues to explode.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Sean Wang about his new coming-of-age movie Didi, which was inspired by his own experiences growing up in an immigrant household in the Bay Area.

Most of the recalled lettuce was distributed to the food service customers, but two lots were under Walmart's Marketside brand. Do not eat recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico.

American farmers have taken a huge financial hit from President Trump's tariffs and trade policies, and are anxiously waiting for the federal financial assistance he announced Monday.

About 30 teams competed to see whose crafts could travel furthest before crashing into the water.

The Library at the USF Tampa campus has become known to students as "Club Lib" because of the late night hours. Senior biomedical science/political…

Lloyd Austin arrived in Kabul on his first visit as defense secretary as the Biden administration discusses when to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan.

Actress Julia Louis Dreyfus — of "Veep" and "Seinfeld" fame — hosted a roundtable with Democratic female governors at the DNC to discuss the importance of women in state leadership.

NPR's Bob Mondello and Marc Rivers join host Andrew Limbong to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's new film and other films that reflect the politics and tensions of our time.

The pianist was a rarity: a female instrumentalist in a honky-tonk band. Though she only recorded one solo album, she played and recorded with her brother for decades. She died Thursday at age 91.

In the middle of the school year, Hayden Dallip was at home in Miami Gardens when he got a call from his seventh-grade daughter. “She was crying—she...

Producer Sara Zarreh tells the story of Margery Kempe, believed to be the first woman to write an autobiography in the English language, more than five hundred years ago.

The GOP primary in Florida's 19th District includes candidates who are new to the state, candidates who've run for Congress before and two candidates who have received pardons from President Trump.

We asked music critic Kiana Fitzgerald, a frequent contributor to NPR Music: Was there a lyric from 2022 that stayed with you all year? She chose a line from the SZA song "Blind."