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NPR's Scott Simon talks to a pastor and parishioners at East Washington Heights Baptist Church about crime in Washington, D.C., and whether the National Guard deployment helps or hurts the city.

The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy.

It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.

Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2020, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for policies ranging from tariffs to immigration.

An angry mob set fire to a local parliament building in an Indonesian provincial capital, leaving at least three people dead and five others hospitalized, officials said.

Experts answer a round of finance questions from NPR's audience, including how to financially support a friend with Stage 4 cancer and how to stop paying for your parents.

This past week, AI darling Nvidia reported blockbuster financial results that beat analysts' expectations. But investors weren't impressed and the stock price dropped.

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States.

Today, details of the historic exchange that allowed the U.S. to welcome home Michigander Paul Whelan from a Russian prison. Then, the founder of The Sphinx Organization reflects on the ways music-making helped him construct a sense of identity. Plus, Beaver Island State Wildlife Research Area celebrates its status as an international dark sky sanctuary.

The state says there were nearly 30% fewer cases of infectious syphilis in Michigan since 2021- but roughly the same number of infants have been born every year since then with congenital syphilis - passed on to the baby during the mother's pregnancy or labor.