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NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast dishes on the recent film adaptation of Judy Blume's classic novel.

Australians are smashing viewing records as they watch their team, The Matildas, advance in the Women's World Cup. But for some women, it's a bittersweet moment.

Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his "F Troop" role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday.

Disruptions from the pandemic hit performing artists hard. To wrap up our series on resilience, we consider the creative ways they survived and how they found strength to bounce back.

Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about Major League Baseball's most competitive division, Rachel Robinson's legacy, and Serena Williams' return to the tennis court.

Decades back, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker had a radical idea to fight against inflation.

What the overturning of Roe v. Wade could mean for U.S. politics. The field is set for Ohio's U.S. Senate race in November. Some civilians and Ukrainian soldiers are still trapped in a steel plant.

It's the annual high-stakes fashion soiree is a major money-maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and an opportunity for mega-wattage stars and influencers to turn out in style.

The 11-day competition — which is held every four years — kicks off with an opening ceremony Thursday night. The events, which include drone racing and tug o' war, are anything but traditional.

A year after a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, an informal community of amateur sleuths — known as "sedition hunters" — continues to identify people who were likely involved in the riot.

Lansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" and thus sought out nontraditional roles.

The universities are playing in a four-team, round-robin invitational. Brigham Young University says the fan is not allowed at any of the athletic venues on campus.