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In 1969, Prince Pasta debuted a TV commercial set in Boston's Little Italy. Fifty years later, the ad is iconic in Boston, and helped launch Italian Americans and their food into America's homes.

El Salvador's brutal crackdown on gangs has led to thousands of arbitrary detentions and the militarization of the streets.

The president's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has lost his interim, top-secret security clearance. The reports say Kushner will have access to a lower level of classified information.

Russian and Ukrainian forces have been fighting over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Both sides have suffered horrific losses. Russia is trying to encircle Ukrainian forces still in the city.

Vice President Joe Biden has still not made a decision about whether to run for president. There are outside events that may affect that decision, including the outcome of Tuesday's debate.

We Are Not Numbers is a nonprofit dedicated to telling stories of Palestinians who have died since Israel began strikes on Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

Authors Philip and Erin Stead have turned 16 pages of Mark Twain's notes — on a serial bedtime story he wove for his daughters — into a new children's book, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck about her recent PhD completion despite the hardships she's faced because of her birth name.

African Americans make up a small percentage of New Hampshire's voters. NPR's Michel Martin talks to James McKim, president of the Manchester Branch of the NAACP, about the Democratic primary results.

Voting is underway in the United Kingdom in an election for the British Parliament called by Prime Minister Theresa May.

NPR's Scott Simon discusses the week in sports with ESPN's Howard Bryant, including impressive wins by the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers.

Commentator John Ridley pays tribute to legendary Hollywood producer Irwin Allen, frequently called the "Master of Disaster." Allen set the standard for large-scale disaster movies. His first has been remade into Poseidon, opening today.

This week's episode of All Songs includes a premiere by The Avett Brothers and The Low Anthem paying homage to Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith.

Last week NBC announced it would be canceling the venerable series, which tied with Gunsmoke this year as the longest-running prime-time drama on network television. Fresh Air pays tribute to the crime procedural by running interviews with series creator Dick Wolf, actor Jerry Orbach and actress S. Epatha Merkerson.

"I'm fighting to lower costs for Florida families, and that starts with an immediate pause on the federal gas tax to provide immediate relief for Floridians." Vindman said in a statement.

In his new book, Oliver Burkeman shuns motivational seminars and the power of positive thinking in favor of uncertainty, insecurity and even pessimism. "Trying to let [negative] feelings be and not always struggling to stamp them out is a more fruitful alternative," he says.

Florida communities near Tampa Bay were devastated when Hurricane Helene made landfall two weeks ago about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the north. Now Milton is forecast to make a direct hit on the low-lying region that has a population of more than 3.3 million people. That means as bad as Helene was, Milton could be much deadlier and destructive.

Why do people defy evacuation orders? The answers involve the psychology of risk. Hurricane Ian’s destruction may help change Floridians’ propensity to ride out hurricanes.

House Republicans approved a budget, narrowly, after some pushback from conservatives. Now GOP leaders in the House and Senate have to agree on details of major spending cuts to pave way for President Trump's tax cuts and border security agenda.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) goes far beyond the NFL. Everyday men and women worry they have the fatal disease, and they've turned to questionable brain products for help.

Nearly two years after a terror attack killed 67 people, Kenya's Westgate Mall is reopening in Nairobi. It comes just in time for a visit to Kenya this week by President Obama.

Wisconsin judge Bruce Shroeder is generating a lot of social media scrutiny for his outspokenness in court while overseeing the homicide trial for Kyle Rittenhouse.

Akron, Ohio, came together to mourn Jayland Walker, who was shot by police. As residents paid respects at his memorial service, community organizations called for police reform and accountability.

Venezuela holds local elections Sunday and for the opposition, in a change in policy, is taking part.

Frank DeAngelis was principal at Columbine High School in Colorado when 12 students and a teacher were killed there. He helps lead a group that offers aid and a sounding board after each fresh attack.