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Spike Lee's kidnapping drama Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low, relocating the action to New York City and starring Denzel Washington.
President Trump and Putin are meeting to discuss the end of Russia's war in Ukraine without Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel.
Home Depot stores have been the location of dramatic federal raids targeting day laborers. But the company has largely been quiet.
After two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in Minnesota, other politicians in the state have signed a pledge to seek out common ground and cool their rhetoric.
A year ago, the WHO and Africa CDC triggered the highest health alert for the mpox outbreak. experts say the response has been an indicator of how poorly prepared the world is for a future pandemic.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former State Department official Ned Price about the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump and what it could mean for global security.
A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner monologue. That could help paralyzed people communicate, but also suggests scientists are one step closer to reading a person's thoughts.
The Energy Star program has saved Americans more than a half-trillion dollars in energy costs and has reduced climate pollution. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate or privatize it.
Sometimes online, there's a character everyone's talking about: someone or something the internet has decided they're obsessed with. This week it has to be Taylor Swift and her fanbase – the Swifties.
The Trump administration had frozen money earmarked to build electric vehicle chargers along highways. Under pressure from a lawsuit filed by states, the government is poised to restart the program.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a military base outside Anchorage, Alaska. We've got the latest.
A new study finds that nearly 1 in 10 kids on Medicaid visiting an emergency department for mental health care remain stuck there for days waiting for follow up psychiatric care.