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After more than two years in captivity, the last 20 hostages abducted during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, have been released.

Today is Churro Day!

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast 'Our Common Nature' from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

The American sci-fi novelist Ken Liu talks about his new thriller All That We See or Seem and the blurred lines between technology, reality, and imagination.

Fred Ramsdell was camping with his family in the Rocky Mountains when he missed the call telling him he'd won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why it still fascinates audiences.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Moshe Lavi, brother-in-law of Omri Miran, who is an Israeli hostage held in Gaza. Miran is one of twenty living hostages expected to return to Israel.

All living Israeli hostages are expected to be released Monday under the ceasefire brokered by President Trump. Palestinian families in Gaza return home to sift through what's left.

On Saturday, a federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops in Illinois.

Lori Ostlund lives in San Francisco. Her story collection "Are You Happy?" came out in May 2025. It's about the specter of violence that hangs over women in the queer community, but with humor.

Today we’re gonna talk about stories. First, young readers are taken to Kenya. Then, why it’s important to own our cultural stories. And, a new podcast of Sudanese folklore.

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.