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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews director Peter Jackson's version of the classic 1933 movie, King Kong. This full-color, digitally generated Kong nearly doubles the length of the original -- and Mondello says it's worth nearly every minute.

A family spokesman said the tall, deep-voiced star of TV's Maude and The Golden Girls died at home early Saturday. He said Arthur had cancer, but he declined to give further details.

Dangerous winds have picked up again, threatening to spread spot fires and complicate work for firefighters.

Indian security forces are cracking down on a major university, highlighting a new front in India's culture wars over things like free expression and religious dietary rules.

NPR's Mary-Louise Kelly speaks with BBC journalist Shoaib Sharifi about the fight to drive Taliban fighters out of the embattled city of Ghazni, Afghanistan.

Day after day, there is less food on the shelves, less power to turn on lights or run businesses and more anger over the difficulties. But opposition efforts to recall the president are being stymied.

NPR's David Greene talks with Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas and the Americas Society about U.S. policy toward Venezuela.

There are two Venezuelas. In one, mothers have no milk for their children. In the other, you can get milky cappuccinos. The country's severe economic problems have worsened inequality.

They include laws on abortion, affordable housing, the death penalty, immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.

The bill, SB 254, would prevent doctors and other health-care providers from offering treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical procedures to transgender minors.

Tech giant Meta has been ordered to pay a nearly $1.3 billion dollar privacy fine in the European Union

Funerals for the victims of a mass shooting during a Sweet 16 party in Alabama are being held, as some question the state's new gun law that allows 19-year-olds to carry weapons without a permit.

A task force in California approved recommendations on how the state can apologize to, and compensate, descendants of slavery. The recommendations head to state lawmakers next.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions about what the word "epidemic" means when it comes to gun violence.

The new Congress will also result in House leadership changes, with Democrat Nancy Pelosi ready to exert her new influence on the chamber. And the Republicans will be voting on who will represent it in its new minority position.

Brazil holds its presidential election Sunday. The incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, holds the lead, but there have been charges of corruption that may result in a runoff with his main opponent, former state governor Geraldo Alckmin of the centrist Social Democracy Party.

Sen. Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, says the current immigration bill amounts to "amnesty" for illegal immigrants and isn't what the country needs. Shelby says the system today is a sham and laws do need to be enforced or repealed.

Hollywood writers for film and television are picketing at studios in a bid to get a more lucrative deal on royalties from DVDs and Internet programming. Last-minute talks with producers and a federal mediator fell apart late Sunday. It's the first strike since 1988.

Cultural debates over race, abortion and transgender rights divided lawmakers on a bill that outlines Pentagon priorities for the coming year — legislation that's historically been bipartisan.

President Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Georgia. He is also sending U.S. planes and naval vessels with humanitarian aid. The Bush administration urged Russia to clear the way for the aid shipments and pull its forces back.

Same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide in the U.S. For a look at what lay behind the Supreme Court's decision, and its ramifications, David Greene speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson and Nina Totenberg.

The final day of election season is coming to an end as polling stations around the U.S. close. See what Election Day looked like across the country.

In a scathing ruling issued Friday, a federal judge found that Florida corrections officials have a “long and sordid history” of failing to treat...

A measure that would require future tax or fee increases to be approved by two-thirds votes of the Legislature is ready for consideration by the state…

In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state's Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales...