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Author Joshua Gamson discusses his new book The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco. Gamson charts the life and times of the late disco icon Sylvester from his roots in South-Central Los Angeles to the height of his fame as an out, gay, African-American who became a legend in the gay San Francisco nightlife — before AIDS ended the party.

Tech billionaires like Marc Benioff are buying large swathes of land in Hawaii. Land is already scarce in the island state and the cost of housing is exorbitant.

Senator Mitt Romney says he won't seek re-election. The Northeast prepares for Hurricane Lee. A corruption trial in Chicago revealed a #MeToo ethics entanglement for top Biden adviser Anita Dunn.

In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collect air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.

This week the government released flood maps that tell New Orleans' residents where they can rebuild, and how high off the ground their houses have to be. Among the residents affected are Colleen and Donald Bordelon, who live in St. Bernard Parish.

The U.S. settled for silver in the last Olympics, when Biles struggled with the "twisties." This year, the gymnasts said they wanted "redemption." It is Biles' eighth Olympic medal and fifth gold.

President-elect Joe Biden is set on Thursday to outline his plan for a coronavirus relief package that he wants Congress to act upon quickly after he takes office.

The songwriter behind Eric Clapton's "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" says he once thought of himself as a late bloomer at 30. Forty years later, he's still blooming. Cale tells Melissa Block about his new album, Roll On.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hilma Wolitzer about her collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which illuminates the complexity of motherhood and marriage.

Erivo says she found parallels between her life and the experience of her Wicked character, Elphaba. Her new memoir is called Simply More: A Book for Anyone who Has Been Told They're Too Much.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds about 6 in 10 Americans are opposed to training teachers to carry guns in schools. But two-thirds of Republicans, including 71 percent of Republican men, are in favor of it.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard about his new book, The Morning Star, his first novel since publishing his six-volume autobiographical series.

Legendary musician, producer and songwriter Al Kooper has released Black Coffee, his seventh solo album and his first in 30 years. Kooper has worked with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and B.B. King. Steve Inskeep talks with Al Kooper about his music.

With multiple unidentified objects being shot down by U.S. fighter jets in the last several days, NPR's Michel Martin asks Rep. Jim Himes of the House Intelligence Committee what we know.

In a new memoir, Chung reflects on the decades she spent covering the news, her marriage to Maury Povich and the prominent figures who acted inappropriately with her — including President Carter.

Caleb Caudle's new album 'Heavy Thrill' is rooted in North Carolina and shaped by years on the road. He talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about self improvement and becoming a father.

Surgeons transplanted a kidney and thymus gland from a gene-edited pig into a 54-year-old woman in an attempt to extend her life. It's the latest experimental use of animal organs in humans.

Until now, the earliest signs of humans in the Americas dated back about 15,000 years. But new research puts people in California 130,000 years ago. Experts are wondering whether to believe it.

Whether espousing a theory on the war in Iraq, the JFK assassination or Michael Jackson's legal troubles, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory is not afraid to speak his mind. Gregory talks about his latest interests, including Gregory's role as a personal adviser to Michael Jackson.

A hospital in New Jersey is among several that have moved nurse managers, who oversee scores of bedside nurses on a unit, to a four-day work week to address burnout and high turnover.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Larry Levitt of KFF about the state of the U.S. health system as we close out 2025 with no deal in Congress to extend Obamacare subsidies.

The hip-hop duo Dead Prez made a name for itself in the late 1990s with politically charged and controversial raps. Dead Prez member M1 talks to Steve Inskeep about crime, politics and his new solo album called Confidential.

Hudson lived a double life as a Hollywood heartthrob and a closeted gay man. Biographer Mark Griffin says Hudson's death from AIDS in 1985 was a turning point in public awareness of the epidemic.

As respiratory virus activity picks up around the country, vaccine levels remain below last year's totals, according to the CDC. Cohen has been on national blitz to improve those numbers.