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In his new memoir, pro-nerd Simon Pegg talks Star Wars, comedy and the zombie apocalypse. And he weighs in on the ongoing genre controversy — the "schism in the church of the undead" — slow zombies versus fast zombies? Definitely slow zombies, Pegg says.

The Republican leading a yearlong investigation into the failed gun-trafficking operation known as Fast and Furious acknowledged that the probe has turned up no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder approved the idea. Other GOP lawmakers Thursday threatened Holder with contempt of Congress.

A group called Vet the Vote is encouraging military veterans to help with the critical shortage of election workers in an atmosphere filled with heated rhetoric and threats against poll workers.

For more than 60 years, this maestro of magic has collaborated with towering figures. Now on a new record, he turns to family.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn will host three town hall meetings to answer questions and discuss the Republican National Convention’s impacts on residents and…

An Israeli police officer has been charged in the beating of a Tampa teenager during a violent protest in Jerusalem in July, the nation’s Justice Ministry…

The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about her nightmare that inspired the project.

Sanaa Lathan talks about her new film, Something New, and parallels between her onscreen portrayal of a harried urban professional and her real life. Something New follows the story of a Lathan's character, an attorney, who starts an unlikely romance with a white landscape architect.

Director Fernando Frías de la Parra's Netflix film I'm No Longer Here is Mexico's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. "He's truly original," says Roma director Alfonso Cuarón.

A forthcoming report says DHS officials had the intelligence they needed to predict that the pro-Trump rally would become violent. What was missing was DHS telling the people who needed to know.

Survivor's guilt is usually associated with people who survive war. It's now consuming some people who survived a deadly disease that so many didn't. A counselor gives steps to address those feelings.

Here's how their hospitals are doing nearly two years into the pandemic, what they are seeing in new omicron patients, and their thoughts on the wave of burnout affecting the industry.

The reboot highlights a dire problem for the country's nuclear program. Japan is running out of space to store spent nuclear fuel and lacks plans for radioactive waste disposal.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nelson G. Navarrete, co-director of the documentary A La Calle, and Leopoldo Lopez, one of the Venezuelan opposition leaders featured in the film.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Marvia Jones of the Kansas City, Mo., Health Department about why she thinks there was a rise in homicides in 2020 and what can be done about it.

NPR's Steve Inskeep in conversation with author Sebastian Mallaby about "The Infinity Machine," his new biography of AI innovator Demis Hassabis.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

The Republican presidential nominee is being faulted for saying President Obama went on an "apology tour" and for things he claimed about Obama's tax and Medicare policies. But overall, independent fact checkers aren't finding many problems.

“We’re always looking for more tools to put in our toolkit to help pets get home first and foremost,” Pinellas County Animal Services director Jennifer Renner said.

Sam Brooker and Ruby Amanfu are not the likeliest of musical pairings. He's from Wisconsin, and is into guitar. She hails from Ghana, was raised in Nashville and has roots planted firmly in the church. But together, they have discovered the power of collaboration. Host Michel Martin sits down with music duo Sam & Ruby, who recently visited NPR for a live performance chat pegged to the release of their new album.

Poet and professor Craig Arnold is a volcano enthusiast. Three days ago, he went missing on a Japanese island where he had gone to see a local volcano. He has visited many volcanoes around the world and written poems and essays about them. His colleague Peter Parolin talks about Arnold's life and passions.

At 16, Ellaraino visited her great-grandmother, Silvia, for the first time. And Silvia had plenty of stories to tell — about being a teenager, and seeing the Civil War, and slavery, come to an end.

Tired of the same old burgers and hot dogs for July 4? Barbecue master Steven Raichlen joins Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep to explore some other options. The menu includes cinnamon-speared peaches, Mexican grilled corn, and pulled pork sliders.

A pair of 5-4 Supreme Court rulings struck down as unconstitutional a federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples and cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in California.