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The new film The Queen looks at England's royal family following the death of Princess Diana. It's directed by Stephen Frears and features Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. The movie opened the New York Film Festival on Friday. NPR critic Bob Mondello has a review.

A new survey shows that museum collections are deteriorating. More than 3,000 institutions participated in the study by ranking their own preservation practices, and the results were alarming.

A Baltimore-based group is working to change the messages companies are sending about sex. So far, it has created convincing, fake websites pretending to be Playboy and Victoria's Secret — but putting an emphasis on consent.

Archaeologists are on a mission to unearth the history of the Olympic Games in Nemea, Greece. The project looks back some 2,700 years, when athletes competed much like they do today -- only in the nude, and barefoot. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions.

Jean-Pierre will also be the first openly gay person to have the most visible post at the White House aside from the president.

In Venezuela, tensions reached fever pitch this week when opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the military to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

Ailing Nobel laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo would prefer not to die in China. But China is more confident of itself, and less willing to send dissidents into exile abroad than it used to be.

L.L. Bean's iconic rubber and leather boots have swung back into fashion with young people and are more popular than ever. The backlog stands at nearly 100,000 pairs; it will take months to catch up.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch traveled to Baltimore Tuesday to meet with the family of Freddie Gray, police, local officials and members of the community.

Nearly 500,000 people have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to make publicly-traded corporations disclose their political spending. The question is: How much clout do 500,000 people actually have?

Renee Montagne talks with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about South Africa's 10-day goodbye to Nelson Mandela. His body will lie in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the scene of his presidential inauguration in 1994.

U.S. and Iraqi commanders say the fight to push ISIS out of Mosul, Iraq is nearing its last few hundred yards.

To mark International Women's Day, the Vatican is opening its doors to a group of women pushing for a greater role in the Catholic Church. The organizers hope to raise issues of church inequality.

Around the world, many of us start our day with a drug derived from a natural insecticide: caffeine. Murray Carpenter tells the tale in Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.

St. Louis is fighting to keep its NFL team from bolting to Los Angeles. Proponents see an economic benefit to keeping the team, and they fear losing of the Rams will hurt the city's prestige.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart David Lammy are raising alarms about Iranian ballistic missiles in Russia that threaten Ukraine.

The latest on the negotiations to end Russia's war on Ukraine, as talks with representatives from Moscow, Kyiv and the Trump administration continue in Miami this week.

Among other bills, Trump rejected legislation that would have given the Miccosukees more control over some of their land. The tribe was among groups suing the administration over "Alligator Alcatraz."

A suspended Twitter account appears to have help spread video of a controversial encounter between a group of Catholic school boys and a Native American elder.

Russia's ghost fleet of sanctions-busting oil tankers are using the Turkish-controlled Bosphorus to reach the Black Sea, causing headaches for Turkey.

When the pause is in effect, officials will study the cost of the H-1B program. Critics say it could harm Florida’s competitiveness against other state university systems.

The Justice Department will deploy more than 500 people to help watch polling places on Election Day. That's a significant decrease since the last presidential contest.

In one of the most prominent displays, the host of a TV program critical of the increasingly authoritarian government is sharply at odds with his younger brother, Venezuela's communications minister.

The U.S.'s lead diplomat heads towards the Middle East again, in an effort to extending the pause in fighting, greater humanitarian access in Gaza and a release of more hostages.