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Annabel Claprood waved and giggled at her computer screen as her name was called, donning a navy blue cap and gown for her virtual graduation from the...

Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking is about grieving for her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne. He died suddenly at the end of 2003, while their daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Goldberg, senior editor at National Review, about the conservative politics surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, about the allegations against Dr. Ronny Jackson — the nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Voters in California are weighing whether to allow Democratic state leaders to redraw the state's Congressional map to offset Republicans' redraw in Texas.

The bill includes a major federal investment for President Trump's mass deportation plans, while also limiting eligibility for some safety net programs based on immigration status.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with broadcaster Anderson Cooper about his podcast, "All There Is," which explores grief and loss.

Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed explores how slavery is — and isn't — taught. And Above Ground includes poems to his children about what their ancestors endured and escaped. He spoke with Fresh Air in 2021 and 2023.

The stadium, ridiculed as MLB’s worst venue, is open again after being damaged by Hurricane Milton, and players and fans can’t wait to get indoors. A sellout crowd is set for the home opener against the Cubs.

Eva Liguori is a WUSF Rush Family Radio News intern for fall of 2026.

Gavi, which helps countries purchase and distribute vaccines, is among thousands of programs determined to be "inconsistent with the national interest or Agency policy priorities."

From a mild recession to a so-called hard landing, we sift through the wild array of recession predictions.

Second Lieutenant Gilbert H. Myers, 27, was declared missing in action in 1943. Eighty years later, he will be buried with full military honors.

African-Americans fought for years to enter professions that were dominated by white people, like medicine, business and law. Now, experts say some of those gains have leveled off since the recession. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with The New York Times' Nelson Schwartz, and lawyer Lisa Tatum, about why minorities struggle to gain ground in elite professions.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ralph Basham, the director of the Secret Service during the George W. Bush administration, about Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle's decision to resign.

Following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, NPR's A Martinez talks to Barbara Collura, the head of a national infertility group, about the future for clinics and people seeking IVF treatment.

A Colorado gas station and car wash owner is already feeling the impact of sharply rising crude prices. Some analysts say continued increases could slow down the economy as it struggles to recover.

Set in Victorian times, Poor Things was a departure from Ruffalo's prior work in movies like Zodiac and Spotlight, and his Marvel role as the Incredible Hulk. Originally broadcast Feb. 13, 2024.

Judith Viorst's best-selling kids' book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day was published 50 years ago. At 91, Viorst reflects on the book's legacy with the real Alexander.

Videotape of the interrogation of Guntanamo detainee Omar Khadr has been released by his lawyers. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was 16 at the time he was questioned in 2003. He is accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a hand grenade in 2002.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Timothy Naftali, former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, about the handling and archiving of classified documents.

We hear from listeners about how they're making the holiday their own in spite of the pandemic.

The 2020 election may seem like a long way off. But, in fact, the campaign has already kicked off. So with the clock already ticking, what are federal officials doing about foreign interference?

Shrimper Ricky Robin rode out Hurricane Katrina on the trawler he built himself nearly 30 years earlier. Over the course of the storm, he helped rescue people from the parish and gave them food and shelter on his boat. Three years after Katrina, Robin's story is the basis of a new book, The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous, by Ken Wells.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with actor Steven Yeun about his new film Minari.