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If confirmed, Gina Haspel will replace Mike Pompeo as CIA director. NPR's Scott Simon talks to a Haspel critic, former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou.

Big Thief has a way of asking the big questions by focusing on the smallest details. NPR's A Martinez speaks with the indie band about "Double Infinity," their sixth studio album.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with retired U.S. Army General Joseph Votel about the Pentagon shuttering offices focused on reducing harm to civilians during U.S. combat operations.

Like President Trump, lawmakers around the U.S. blame corporate homebuyers for high prices and want to restrict them. Experts say it's not so simple, and passing laws has proved difficult.

A Civil War battle of Ball's Bluff, near Leesburg, Va., forms the backdrop for the opening scene of Geraldine Brooks' new novel, March. Its principal character, Capt. March, becomes undone by the evils of war and his own moral shortcomings.

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why it still fascinates audiences.

We pause to remember Leslie Nielsen, an actor who knew very well that his job wasn't to say funny things or say things in a funny way -- but who managed to be riotously funny anyway.

The women's Final Four basketball tournament tips off tonight and the question most are asking is whether the University of Connecticut will ever a lose game. UConn women have won 111 games in a row.

World-famous primatologist Jane Goodall has admitted to plagiarizing several passages in her upcoming book, Seeds of Hope. It's not yet clear if Goodall or her co-author Gail Hudson is responsible for the lifted passages.

An Algerian military plane on its way to Bechar plowed into a farm field, killing 257 people. Redha Menassel, a reporter for Radio Alger, says passengers included soldiers and civilians.

An armada of volunteers — known as the Cajun Navy — with their big pickups towing big boats — are helping neighbors near Baton Rouge, where record floods have displaced tens of thousands of people.

Ever heard a snippet from a song and just can't recall who sang it — or where you heard it before? A 17-second clip has become a viral music mystery.

Rachel Martin talks to Hannah Hart about her YouTube seriesMy Drunk Kitchenand about her book Buffering.Hart got famous for getting drunk and recording herself cooking a grilled cheese sandwich.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jaden Michael, who stars in the new Netflix series Colin in Black and White.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about a new folk album, Playing for the Man at the Door, from late chronicler Mack McCormick's collection.

Republican Rep. Alex Andrade grills AHCA Secretary Shevaun Harris and her aides about $10 million from a legal settlement given to a direct-support organization that supports Casey DeSantis' Hope Florida program.

Britain's National Health Service is said to be at breaking point, with twice as many COVID-19 patients in hospitals than there were during the worst weeks of the pandemic last April.

Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands. The process often raises more questions for patients than it can answer.

In Jason Bourne, the latest in the secret agent series starring Matt Damon, director Paul Greengrass presents a thriller relevant to today's world, says Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times.

A newspaper in Sisterville, W.Va., is looking for a new reporter. The job comes with free lodging in a historic hotel, as long as the candidate is willing to staff the front desk a few times a week.

The average price of a gallon of gas could fall 10-20 cents over the next few weeks.

Voices from Gaza in the midst of a communication blackout as Israel forced continue airstrikes on the enclave.

New York pastry chef Brooks Headley calls his cookbook Fancy Desserts. But his Italian grandmother is his real inspiration, he says, and she was all about homestyle: simple and fresh.

We get the latest from this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. It's being held in person for the first time since the pandemic began.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.