Month: December 2025

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Panahi’s latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Emily Vinson started a new job at a pizza place. She fainted on her first day — and a customer came to the rescue.

The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses.

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Washington Post reporter Alex Horton talks about the Sept. 2 U.S. military strike on a boat with alleged “narco terrorists,” in which a second strike was ordered to kill two survivors in the water.

Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Here are 8 fiction picks that were standout stars.

From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.

The road to redistricting in Missouri has been wild and winding, but its tie to a 1997 kids’ movie starring a basketball-playing golden retriever might be the most unexpected development of all.

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The word “ideology” has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents’ beliefs as dangerous, stupid or unfounded. But it wasn’t always this way.

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Librarian Dorothy Vogel, who, with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art in their one bedroom apartment, died on Nov. 10.