Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the song "Farrah Fawcett Hair" and the shows Blue Eye Samurai and Ghosts UK.
Crews with rail operator CSX and Kentucky officials are working to remove train cars and spilled material at the site of a derailment that sparked a chemical fire and prompted home evacuations.
Cooper plays the legendary composer and Carey Mulligan is his wife, Felicia Montealegre, in a new drama that exquisitely renders Bernstein's musical brilliance and human flaws.
Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly. Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones. Originally broadcast Sept. 21, 2023.
In the peak of the pandemic, unemployed with lots of free time, I took a chance and tinkered with making clay creations. I felt a sense of immense pride — coupled with the nagging desire to do better.
A person shared video of "the mother of all tumbleweeds" on social media this week. That got us thinking about where tumbleweeds come from and their propensity for taking over roads and neighborhoods.
It's important to keep an eye out for cyber scams during the holiday shopping season. New research suggests companies could do more to protect consumers. (Story aired on ATC on Nov. 21, 2023.)
The human brain has to really fight the lure of a discount. Companies know this and use many tricks to push our buttons. But there's a way to outsmart them.
The company's non-profit board and for-profit arm have long been at odds. CEO Sam Altman's week-long ouster represents the culmination of that long-simmering tension.
A deal to pause the fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners would begin Friday morning, according to the foreign ministry in Qatar.
Violent clashes broke out in Dublin on Thursday evening after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other children hospitalized.
Stache lives in Honey Brook, Pa., not far from where he picked up today's prestigious Best in Show award. The Kennel Club of Philadelphia hosts the annual contest that's televised on Thanksgiving Day.
In an extreme example of resistance to progressive prosecutors, a St. Louis police officer is refusing to testify in murder cases he investigated, even though he believes the defendants are guilty.
We came to a refugee camp in Jordan to ask what is on people's minds, as war and violence unfold in places that may be miles away, but that feel central to their identities.
