Search results for

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New York Magazine critic Alison Willmore about the year's lineup.

House Republicans blocked a major funding and tax cut bill and will reconvene Sunday to negotiate further.

I'm With Her's new album is all about the music that members Aoife O'Donovan, Sara Watkins, and Sarah Jarosz grew up on. Their new album is "Wild and Clear and Blue."

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the discovery that what Harvard University thought was a copy of the Magna Carta is actually an original.

On this day in 1866, Frederick Douglass visited Ypsilanti, Michigan, a hub of the Underground Railroad with a sizable Black community. He spoke about Lincoln’s assassination and shared anecdotes from his meetings with the President during the Civil War. And today in 1881, Julius Ropes discovered gold near Ishpeming, Michigan. Two years later, he opened the only profitable gold mine east of the Mississippi River, which operated until 1991.

Youssef was in fifth grade and living in New Jersey on Sept. 11. His new show, #1 Happy Family USA, draws on his experiences. McBride sends a love letter to the South with The Righteous Gemstones.

President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules.

NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.

Today’s radio programming is made possible in part by a contribution from Al Holzhausen and Sue Laningham in celebration of our wedding anniversary.

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of immigrants in Northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.