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This year, Hollywood will release 28 movie sequels — more than any other year — and while all these Part 2s, 3s and 4s may be good for the industry's bottom line, it's making NPR movie critic Bob Mondello's job tricky.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) forms a presidential exploratory committee and says that he will announce his plans — to run for the top office or not — on Feb. 10. Obama's move allows him to raise money for a presidential candidacy.

Jill Heinerth's memoir leads with her thoughts as she wonders if she will die underwater, setting the tone for an honest and engaging book about life as one of the world's top cave divers.

Florida residents brace for Hurricane Idalia, which is expected to become a hurricane before landfall. COVID cases are rising in the U.S. The NPR international desk's best tips for beating jet lag.

Ed Piskor is back with another volume of his popular Hip Hop Family Tree series, this time chronicling the acts — from the Beastie Boys to one-hit wonders — that rose to the top in 1984 and 1985.

Fifty years ago, a young pitcher won his first major league game for the New York Yankees. Jim Bouton went on to become a top-flight player. But he became famous, or notorious, for Ball Four, a memoir that broke the code of silence that kept what happened in locker rooms and on the road off-limits.

NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Alec MacGillis of ProPublica about top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell's leadership in the context of the Senate GOP's failure to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act.

Americans are not alone waiting for President Obama to announce his new strategy in Afghanistan. Afghans also are waiting to hear how the U.S. plans to tackle the crisis in their country, where violence and instability have worsened.

The plan, a top priority of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, includes trying to boost the number of doctors in the state, shift patients away from emergency rooms and seed innovation efforts.

Ukraine's president sacked his top general and replaced him with an ally. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Christopher Miller of The Financial Times about what the shakeup signals for the war with Russia.

NCPR reporters Brian Mann and Emily Russell trekked through the snow to the peak of Mount Adams. Their journey to the top is one for the books.

Political aftershocks grow after CNN report that North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor posted racist, anti-Semitic and other inflammatory comments on an adult forum more than a decade ago.

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently spoke up his wife, Casey, saying she'd be a qualified candidate to replace him in 2026.

Fatmeh is one of hundreds of thousands of children who have fled Syria with their families. In Lebanon, she works in the fields up to 14 hours a day, clinging to her dream of going to college.

Several private equity firms are swarming into aging America’s eye care, and the consolidation is costing the health care system and patients more money. Some of the groups include Florida practices in their networks.

Eight of the top 10 states with the highest suicide rates are in the Mountain West. Grand Junction, Colo., has launched an ambitious effort starting in the schools to try to address the problem.

A new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson paints the story of how President Biden believed he was capable of serving a second term even though his inner circle hid that he wasn't.

Cokie Roberts and the Washington Post's Robert Costa talk politics ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

This past week, members of the U.S. Senate did something unusual: They debated the war in Iraq and the next steps for American forces there. Host Liane Hansen talks with Republican consultant Whit Ayres and Democratic consultant Donna Brazile about how the war and other issues might influence this fall's Congressional elections.

Nearly 5,000 NPR readers told us how they dealt with COVID on a trip. Did they respect the CDC guidance to wait 10 days before flying? Or did they travel anyway? What lessons do they have to share?

NPR's A Martínez speaks with former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf about his autobiography: In the Blink of an Eye.

Romance novel sales are surging, even as overall book sales experience their first decline in years. And no, fans are not embarrassed by their love of the genre.

How do you pedal a 200-pound pink brain — made of rubber, foam and steel — up 45-degree hills, through thick mud and water without breaking? These middle schoolers have eight months to figure it out.

VP Harris was in Nevada with her running mate, and ex-president Trump campaigned for a Senate candidate in Montana. The same-day appearances is a chance to hear the contrast in substance and style.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses the week ahead in politics with NPR's senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.