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Sat., May 18 and Sun., May 19, 2024 | Please join us at the East Lansing Art Festival for a weekend of creativity and community! WKAR radio personalities will be at the main stage and we will be passing out cool swag at the WKAR tent.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded access to benefits for vets who left the military with other-than-honorable discharges — in particular those kicked out for homosexuality.

The transitional council could begin cementing a new transitional government, and a multi-national force led by Kenya is expected to deploy into the country in the next couple of weeks.

Could president Biden do more? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Blank a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a former foreign policy adviser for Biden when he was in the Senate.

Andy Serkis, the actor who portrayed Gollum, the tormented creature obsessed with the One Ring to rule them all, in Lord of the Rings, will reprise the role in two films centered around the character.

1953: Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan. Known for books like "The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963" and "Bud, Not Buddy," he highlights the Black experience. 1978: Michigan expelled Rep. Monte Geralds for embezzlement, the second such expulsion in its history.

In 2000, a representative of FC Barcelona was talking with the future star's father. To show the team's commitment, he wrote the contract on a napkin, which could sell for over $600,000.

There's a fund that commercial airlines pay into for things such as safety inspections, but commercial space companies don't pay into that fund. (Story aired on All Things Considered on May 9, 2024.)

Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, SimCity and Ultima join the World Video Game Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York.

While other streamers try live sports, Netflix experiments with a live talk show and comedy specials. What's behind the pivot, and is it working?