Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, so better get your reading on! NPR staffers share some recommendations from our “Books We Love” list. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You know, summer’s a fine time for exercise – taking long walks, biking along trails, seeing family all out in the sunshine. So don’t you sometimes just want to curl up with …
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Law enforcement personnel respond to a reported shooting in Anaconda, Mont., on Friday. Joseph Scheller/The Montana Standard/AP hide caption toggle caption Joseph Scheller/The Montana Standard/AP Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana on Saturday for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar, killing four people. Michael Paul Brown, 45, fled The Owl Bar in …
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In this photo illustration, the Tea app logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. The dating advice app suffered a major data leak last month. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Tea app describes itself as “the safest place to spill tea” about potential online matches, allowing its subscribers to …
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Dillon Angulo, who was seriously injured in a Florida crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist technology, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Miami on Friday. David Fischer/AP hide caption toggle caption David Fischer/AP MIAMI — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver …
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People attend an interfaith service on Oct. 29, 2018, at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images More than 1,000 rabbis and other Jewish leaders from around the globe, including in Israel and the U.S., have signed a public letter urging Israel to allow extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza. The letter …
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The Hunting Wives is a silly, raunchy, murder mystery series on Netflix — if that’s your thing. Above, Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow, Kent Smith/Lionsgate hide caption toggle caption Kent Smith/Lionsgate When Sophie (Brittany Snow) moves from Boston to Texas with her husband so that he can work for a very rich guy named Jed (Dermot Mulroney), she initially fears …
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Members of the National Transportation Safety Board speak before an investigative hearing about the January midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Three days of hearings held by federal investigators this week shed new light on …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — August 1, 2025 — Today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin a “wind-down of its operations” and ultimate full operational closure following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill. In …
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Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to …
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In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two federal law enforcement officers coordinate with other officials in February 2025 near Washington, D.C. Handout/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Handout/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images Immigration and Customs Enforcement is recruiting retired federal workers to join its enforcement, legal …
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