Lebanon's parliament chose the head of the country's armed forces, Joseph Aoun, to be its next president, a post that's been vacant since October 2022.

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.

The names of some 425,000 suspected Dutch collaborators went online 80 years after the Holocaust ended, making them accessible to historians and descendants as the country grapples with its past.

Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It's a lead performance more daring than the film itself.

In order to better understand her circadian rhythm, science journalist Lynne Peeples conducted an experiment in which lived for 10 days in a bunker, with no exposure to sunlight or clocks.

Congestion pricing was introduced in the center of New York City on Sunday, after a late attempt by officials in neighboring New Jersey to stop it in court failed. The measure — which charges ...

This week, we ring in the New Year by reminding ourselves of what made the old one so great, including interviews with Kristin Kish, Bill Cowher, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin.

A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, ending a 20-year push to regulate internet service providers like a public utility. A U.S. Court ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was narrowly reelected to the position after initially falling two votes short. Johnson and his allies worked to convince two members to switch their votes ...

James Carville slammed what the longtime Democratic strategist called “NPR language” that he said members of his party use as he evaluated why Vice President Harris lost the November election.

As NPR has reported, many people who are taking the new weight loss drugs like Wegovy or Mounjaro say they don't enjoy alcohol as much as they once did. More studies are needed to understand the ...

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