Month: October 2025

In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a “shadow president” with oversized influence.

From the supernatural to the slightly-too-realistic, it’s been a banner year for scary movies, many of which are available to stream from home this Halloween.

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Lesser-known monsters that deserve a moment in the spotlight.

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator.

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DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman.

Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

In this follow-up to her hit novel, Catherine Newman reprises her beloved Rocky, a sharp-witted, neurotically doting mother.