Month: January 2025

“Stick Nation” is a worldwide movement that thrives on irreverent, fantastical and downright wholesome descriptions of sticks.

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Oscar nominations were revealed Thursday morning. We get reaction from NPR critic Linda Holmes.

Pamela Anderson’s role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the ’90s. But she longed to be taken seriously as a performer and person. Her new film is The Last Showgirl.

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Keke Palmer is one of Hollywood’s most charismatic leads, and SZA is one of the world’s biggest pop stars. Now, they’ve teamed up for the raunchy buddy comedy One of Them Days. The movie is about two best friends in L.A., who endure a wild series of misadventures as they try to make rent over the course of one very eventful day. It’s rowdy and profane, but it’s also got something to say about gentrification, predatory businesses, and other factors that make it hard to survive and advance in America.

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Donald Trump has been re-sworn in as President of the United States. And for this re-ascendency, he owes a thank you to Latino voters, especially Latino evangelicals. They turned out for him in double digits in the last election. So what is it about Latinos, evangelicalism, and Trump’s brand of Republicanism that helped tip the White House back in his favor?

President and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, Robert P. Jones, and Axios Justice and Race reporter Russell Contreras join Brittany to get at the root of this shift and what it means for our political future.

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Petula Clark’s single “Downtown” hit the number one spot on the US billboard charts 60 years ago, on January 23, 1965, and stayed there for two weeks. At 92, she’s planning a concert in London.

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Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings.

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Eisenberg’s film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. The story draws on his own family history — and his struggle with OCD.