From learning a new skill to prompting federal legislation, here are some of the ways people’s lives were affected by the NPR ...

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Pop culture critic Linda Holmes has been making this annual list since 2010. Big, small, inspirational, silly — what these items have in common is that they are all wonderful and brought her joy.

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It was a true holiday gift this week to see an opinion piece in The New York Times by Pope Francis. In a short essay adapted ...

Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked ...

All We Imagine as Light explores the lives of working-class women in Mumbai and won the Grand Prix at Cannes. But it was deemed not Indian enough to submit to the Oscars.

Prime Minister Edi Rama said over the weekend that the government will shut down TikTok for one year, accusing the popular ...

Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place ...

The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn’t authorized for ...

Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the ...

Nickel Boys is one of the most thrillingly inventive literary adaptations our critic has seen in years, while The Brutalist ...