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Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin reports on the new film by Oscar-winning director James Cameron, Aliens of the Deep. The film, presented in 3-D at IMAX theaters, documents life two-and-a-half miles below the surface of the sea.

Target department stores bought every advertisement in The New Yorker magazine this week. Target did this before, when it bought all the advertising space in an issue of People magazine. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Bryan Curtis, who examines what the buy-up says about Target's prime audience.

As the Rays seal the deal on a new stadium and head to the MLB playoffs, and the Bucs start their season in winning form, could our region be 'Champa Bay' once more?

Kenya's president axed the bill after large demonstrations, in which rights groups say police shot at protesters and more than 20 people were killed. But protesters vow to march on.

Actor and first-time director Chris Pine joins NPR's Rachel Martin to draw a card from the Wild Card deck.

A nonprofit is in charge of distributing the rapidly growing state funds. But financial troubles at one pregnancy center highlight gaps in its review of organizations that receive money.

In late April, a tragedy began to unfold in Larkana. First one, then 15, now hundreds of youngsters have been found to be HIV-positive. Who is responsible?

The New Jersey Democrat cited a lack of money to sustain a campaign that can win the Democratic nomination. His exit reduces the diversity of the field further, as three candidates of color remain.

The teenager and first-time Olympian took home the gold in a surprise win, beating out teammate and returning champion Lilly King. The gold was the first one in swimming for her home state of Alaska.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Max Fisher, author of The Chaos Machine, about how social media companies leverage content that elicits anger and outrage to keep users engaged on their platforms.

At least ten news organizations have retracted or amended their stories after an NPR investigation showed that a man they featured as a bold Chinese dissident was accused of being a conman.

The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice.

In this week's StoryCorps, we hear about a student who endured the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, and later returned to the school as a teacher.

For generations of Americans, making fun of fruitcake has been a holiday tradition. But a Canadian pastry chef and master food preserver would like us to reconsider our assumptions.

Add Halloween costumes to the list of items that are hard to find this year. Parents are scrambling and coming up with creative ideas to try to get their families decked out for the spooky day.

Wildfires have burned in six states on the west coast. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Char Miller, Director of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College about the the fires and climate change.

It'd be easy for Mary Johnson and Oshea Israel to be enemies. After all, Israel killed Johnson's son. Israel went to prison for that — and near the end of his sentence, he and Johnson made peace.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Frank Bruni about his new book The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found, a memoir about the author partially losing his eyesight.

VP Harris will make her first official campaign stop as the likely Democratic nominee. GOP warns of obstacles in the transition from Biden to Harris. Secret Service chief testified on Capitol Hill.

More than 4,000 babies were born addicted to opioids in Florida last year, an increase of over 1,000 percent from a decade ago.

NPR's Scott Simon checks in with Randy Adams, a New Orleans resident who he interviewed many times after Hurricane Katrina, about how Adams and his family are doing after Hurricane Ida.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Collin Binkley of The Associated Press about an AP investigation into millions of dollars the NRA gives to schools.

Hurricane Gustav pummeled Cuba last week before the storm made landfall in the U.S. Now, Hurricane Ike is sweeping across the island, days after Cuba rejected storm aid from the U.S. Michael Voss, a Cuba-based journalist for the BBC, and NPR's Tom Gjelten, offer an update on Cuba and the political implications of the storm.

The House passed a resolution formalizing its impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Also, a profile of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a preview of a Trump rally in Mississippi.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Francis Collins about how his faith is helping inform part of his next role: he wants to use science, religion and above all empathy to try to bring people together.