NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant break down the latest in Major League Baseball playoffs, the WNBA finals and a new hockey season.

A Ukrainian chef has just published an English-language cookbook on his country's cuisine. He says it's an important step to keeping international attention on Ukraine's fight against Russia.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Alia Trabucco Zerán about her new novel, "Clean," which tells the story of a young girl's death, through the eyes of her housekeeper.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about his new collection, "Forest of Noise," and about the conflict in Gaza.

A new national marine sanctuary is being established off the California coast. The Biden administration plans to manage it with the indigenous groups that fought for years to create it.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that key on personal struggles.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with country music icon Reba McEntire about her new NBC sitcom Happy's Place, about a woman who inherits her father's restaurant with a half sister she's never met.

Game 4 of the WNBA Finals Friday night may mark the end of a historic season for the league, with records broken in TV ratings and attendance.

The presidential campaigns are projecting confidence in Michigan. But the fact that candidates from both major parties are in the state on the same day shows how close the race is in this key state.

The weight-loss drugs are linked with reduced rates of excess drinking and opioid overdoses, suggesting they may tamp down ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the death penalty cases that have come under scrutiny this year.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Antoine Renard, the World Food Programme Country director for Gaza, about how people in north Gaza are starving and aid shipments reached their lowest level in September.