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Jonathan Coulton performs Beatles songs re-written to be about bugs, and Busy Philipps and Shantira Jackson have to figure out what he's singing about.

Lithuania's foreign minister visited Washington, D.C., this week, trying to marshal U.S. support for a diplomatic push for a peaceful transition of power in protest-torn Belarus.

There's only been one other year — 2005 — that Greek names have been needed. The National Hurricane Center on Friday announced storms called Alpha and Beta have formed in the Atlantic.

They point to a real estate deal that could drain two-thirds of the American Guild of Musical Artists' financial reserves and a secretive, failed deal with disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo.

A judge in San Francisco said Trump's order targeting the popular Chinese-owned app has a "modest" basis in national security and represents a free speech violation for U.S. users of the app.

Sunday night's Emmy Awards, which featured neither a large crowd nor a red carpet, managed to achieve a charming intimacy as Watchmen, Schitt's Creek and Succession all won major awards.

As people stay at home, they are putting out more trash, from pizza boxes to cardboard delivery boxes. That's putting a big strain on residential garbage collectors.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jiayang Fan, staff writer for The New Yorker, about her piece, "Motherland," which is featured in a recent issue of the magazine.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took on a second life as a pop culture icon complete with a Saturday Night Live caricature. People were enraptured with her accessories, health, diet and exercise regimen.

It's tough marking special events these days. The New Yorker's Naomi Fry explains many people are now turning to an app called Cameo for personalized celebrity messages for their friends and family.

Burgess may have starred as Titus Andromedon on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,but how much does he know about breakable things? We'll find out.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to journalist Anjan Sundaram about the charges brought by the Rwandan government against the man whose heroism inspired the movie "Hotel Rwanda," Paul Rusesabagina.

The shofar is a hallmark of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The pandemic means there will be more and smaller prayer gatherings this year, so some cities have offered free shofar-blowing courses.

Violence and humor create a complicated character arc in a Netflix series that serves as a prequel, of sorts, to Ken Kesey's famed novel. Sarah Paulson gives a star turn as Mildred, AKA Nurse Ratched.

Many Topgun trainees are fans of Tom Cruise's classic film. However, expressing their passion for the film has consequences at the elite Navy fighter pilot program.

The president has contradicted health experts, and now his own ambitious timeline, for a vaccine against COVID-19.

Lilliam Rivera's new young adult novel reimagines Orpheus and Eurydice as Afro-Latinx teens in New York, bringing something new to the old tale by giving Eurydice her own baggage and her own story.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett said watching the video of George Floyd's killing was "very, very personal" for her family, given that she has two Black children adopted from Haiti.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will visit Charlotte and Asheville on Thursday, the first day of early voting in North Carolina, the Biden campaign announced Tuesday.

The Polaris Music Prize winner kicks off our week-long Tiny Desk celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.