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Only 8% of directors with movies in theaters in 2025 were women. That news comes from an annual study from USC Annenberg. It reveals a reversal of trends that were not great to begin with; in 2020, the best year for women directors on record, only 15% of movie directors were women.

Today is National Poinsettia Day

California's wine industry struggles; Bay Area weather stagnates; the downlow on San Francisco's new police chief; author Mary Alice Stephens on life without alcohol.

Ugandans are voting in a tense presidential election as 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule amid an internet shutdown and heavy military deployment.

We talk with a NOAA scientist about the Northern Lights, and why their visibility seems to be increasing.

Medical professionals say the Trump administration's reversal of a policy that kept immigration enforcement from happening in or near medical facilities is having an impact on people's health.

The latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows what Americans think of President Trump and his policies.

Trump plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, when Jerome Powell's term expires in May. The president has been pushing the central bank to slash interest rates.

There was yet another sign this week of a potential 2026 wave that could hand control of the House of Representatives to Democrats.

A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.

Plus: What's up with Wicked, Greenland, quarters and Jan. 6?

NPR's Michel Martin asks GOP strategist Ron Bonjean about the Republican Party's legislative priorities and challenges ahead of the midterms.