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NPR's A Martínez talks to Alex Heath, a reporter for The Verge, about Facebook announcing a major re-branding of the company. The new entity, Meta, will encompass Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

The agency acted after an independent panel of scientists strongly supported the move. Kids could start getting vaccinated within the week.

Director Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is a bewitching piece of craftsmanship, featuring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the murderous power couple.

A year and a half after COVID-19 outbreaks tore through many of the nation's meatpacking plants, workers and their towns are still working on ways to enhance safety.

More retailers are striking deals with delivery companies like Uber, DoorDash and Instacart to get online orders to shoppers within hours.

These Life Kit stories about burnout, distraction and making connections resonated with readers, topping the charts as our most popular stories of 2021.

Guizhou Province is one of the country's poorest. But it has some unique advantages, which it is trying to use to transform itself into a big data hub. This report first aired on ATC on July 3, 2017.

We hear from a couple that just opened a restaurant, a groom planning a wedding, and a concert tour manager about how they are planning for an unpredictable year ahead.

The U.S. is also proposing U.N. sanctions in response to North Korea's six ballistic missile launches since September, each of which it says "were in violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

In a village near Beijing, Little Donkey Farm is trying to rebuild a tradition of organic farming in the world's most populous country. It builds on thousands of years of Chinese history, but it's also inspired by American experiences.

Cultural diplomacy usually comes in the form of a traveling art show or celebrity visit, but this summer the Kennedy Center is engaging in a deeper kind of diplomacy; a fellowship program that provides training for arts managers from around the world.

In a Disney Store in Southern California, displays include playful child-size mannequins that encourage shoppers to interact with the merchandise.

Virginia filmmaker Tom Davenport is best known for his movie adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales — set in Appalachia. Now he spends much of his time making sure people see the work of other filmmakers. His Folkstreams.net is an online archive for documentaries on a range of folk culture, virtually all of them impossible to find anywhere else.

The British comedian has made his name playing losers on TV. But he says performing stand-up in front of New Yorkers helped him really find his stride. He discusses his love of the U.S., his philosophy about comedy and his special, Out of England, which debuts Saturday on HBO.

The weekly round-up of what movie critics are saying about new film offerings takes note of Turistas, Ten Items or Less and The Nativity Story.

Two new documentaries are making headlines. Gabriela Cowperthwaite's Blackfish centers on the whale that killed a trainer before an Orlando SeaWorld audience in 2010. The Act of Killing by human rights researcher Josh Oppenheimer, looks at the mass executions of communists in Indonesia in the 1960s.

Reading Rainbow Live streams Sunday on the digital platform Looped. But Burton, who hosted the original series for more than two decades, won't be there. A cast of 20-somethings will host.

With over a hundred businesses cutting ties with Russia, one company in particular, Levi's, is reminding people of a time in Russian history when Western jeans were a well sought after commodity.

As cryptocurrency become more mainstream, some states are introducing legislation to standardize crypto as a form of payment.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, co-founder of the notorious L.A. street gang the Crips, is scheduled for execution December 13th. Commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues that by granting clemency, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could send a signal to other inmates that doing good works behind bars may be rewarded -- and a message of hope to young African-Americans.