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Stop-motion animation has evolved a lot since the days of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Henry Selick's Coraline, based on the Neil Gaiman classic, pushes the form even further.

In the new book, The Rise of Rome, author Anthony Everitt tracks Rome's ascension from a small market town to the greatest empire in the ancient world. Along the way, he traces the rise of some of the ancient world's most powerful players.

As we say goodbye to 2024, let's also bid farewell to some less-than-ideal money habits: impulse purchases, out-of-control credit card debt and the trap of lifestyle creep.

Public health experts have been urging Americans for months to get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19. But the options for children under 5 are limited. Parents long for more support and guidance.

Activists and relief workers can't help but respond to mounting disasters in Haiti, even though they are fatigued from the constant churn of relief efforts.

Ahead of the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Fiona Hill, former Russia adviser on the National Security Council under former President Trump, discuss negotiating with Putin.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Red Sox reporter Ian Browne about the life of Major League Baseball player Tim Wakefield, who was known for throwing a knuckleball.

When Kathleen Turner made her first movie 25 years ago, she wasn't convinced she could produce a convincingly sexy stare. Today, she still commands attention, in the role of Martha in the touring version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A mixtape for when you're leaning out onto your balcony, looking melancholy and pretending to be a classic Hollywood dame.

Scientists have figured out how massive chunks of ice trigger these seismically detectable events when they break off a glacier. The findings could help researchers track ice loss from glaciers.

Education for girls brings numerous benefits when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Oh, and it works for boys, too!

On her surreal, sci-fi and decidedly romantic new album ¡Ay!, the Colombian, Berlin-based electronic artist crafts an alien narrative drawing inspiration from the genres of her youth.

While many universities have raised tuition in the last decade, Purdue University has frozen those costs. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to outgoing Purdue President Mitch Daniels about the strategy.

The national security adviser caught the president's attention for his aggressive stance as a Fox News commentator but strayed from favor after pushing too hard against Trump's wishes.

Yuri Kochiyama and her family were rounded up by the American government and forced to live behind barbed wire during World War II. Her brief friendship with Malcolm X inspired her activism.

Nonvoters are disengaged and don't believe politics can make a difference in their lives. They are also more likely to be Latino, younger, make less money and have lower levels of education.

”Fortunately, I have a lot of friends, and they’ve been very kind to me,” Charlie Crist told the Catalyst. “And I love them for it.”

The song was everywhere during the 1967 gatherings in San Francisco. After it was used in a public service announcement, it became an anthem for the rest of the world.

The University of South Florida is recruiting 1,600 elderly volunteers to determine whether computer brain exercises can prevent dementia.Researchers have…

Author James Prosek is known for detailed watercolors, of trout in particular, that capture nature in all its vibrance. NPR's Michele Norris visited Prosek's home in Connecticut to disscuss the space he's designed.

The rapper, part of Migos, the Atlanta group that was hugely commercially popular and both formally and culturally influential, was reportedly shot and killed in Houston on Tuesday.

A new Pew Research Center study finds that a third of Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's supporters are most strongly motivated by opposition to Trump and Clinton.

A young Jan Kincaid Clifford wasn't even tall enough to reach the stove. That didn't stop her from stirring the pot. And stirring. And stirring. Her dad's recipe requires patience, but it pays off.

I’m not much for making resolutions on Jan. 1. It feels like a setup for failure. Of course, it’s great to set intentions to try to be a better you. But the old “I’ll lose ten pounds by February,” or “I won’t eat any sugar or drink any alcohol until April” just doesn’t work for me.

Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden explores the consequences of Sept. 11 through the story of two young brothers who go to Afghanistan in late 2001 to help wounded civilians. Aslam says he wrote the book over four and a half years, part of which was spent in total isolation.