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NPR's Eyder Peralta plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUNC listener Aaron Jones of Cary, North Carolina.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Rich Storrs from Marlborough, Conn.

Listener Nancy Newfeld plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Kelsey Snell.

A panel of vaccine advisors voted unanimously to expand authorization of boosters for anyone 18 and older. Just hours later CDC director Rochelle Walensky endorsed the recommendation.

Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin by Mason Hereford and Dinner in One by Melissa Clark call the mishap a very 2022 event as a storm sinks their publication dates.

NPR's Juana Summers plays the puzzle with winner Jim Howe from Manlius, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Listener Michael Haggans plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Sarah McCammon.

NPR's Juana Summers plays the puzzle with Brian Yellen of Amherst, Mass., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Mark Davis of Oakland, Calif., and puzzle master Will Shortz.

Zero 7's newest album, The Garden, might just be the band's best yet. Filled with lightweight-yet-powerful pop hooks and vocal harmonies, the collaborations with singers Jose Gonzalez and Sia that dot the record help render it organic and beautiful.

A single from Allen's 1980 album, soon to be reissued, finds the singer on the road from his home state of Texas, pointed to California, poised between country music tradition and something wilder.

The film The Room revolves around a steamy love triangle filled with lies, betrayal and tragic consequences. But the real draw for audiences is interacting with a cult hit some watch over and over again.

It may not be possible to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year, according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before a Senate committee. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it will be months before Iraqi army units are ready to operate on their own.

Singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor's new CD is Begin to Hope. The Russian emigre, who came to the United States when she was 9, says her songs aren't about herself and likens writing songs to writing fiction.

For more on the new Hispanic census numbers, Robert Siegel talks with Jeffrey Passel, senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center. The latest numbers put the Hispanic population in the U.S. at about 41.3 million people. One-in-five kids under the age of five is now Hispanic.

Americans are highly critical of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. And for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks, the public thinks the president should focus more on domestic policy than on the war on terrorism.

As the 10th anniversary of his record-breaking streak approaches, retired Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. talks about baseball's steroids scandal, the sad state of sportsmanship and his life off the field.

Bolero is perhaps best known from the 1979 movie 10 soundtrack. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece, music commentator Miles Hoffman says.

The summer solstice officially begins at 5:13 a.m. Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, according to the National Weather Service.