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Hollywood has been shaken up by the recent merger of two big talent agencies. Endeavor and the William Morris Agency represent some of the biggest stars of film and television. The powerhouse behind the new company is Ari Emanuel — the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Kim Masters, host of the public radio show "The Business," talks with Steve Inskeep about Emanuel.

Following King Charles III's coronation, Sarah McCammon speaks with professor Pauline MacLaran of the Royal Holloway University of London about King Charles and the future of the monarchy.

More than 1,100 former DOJ officials want Attorney General William Barr to resign. NPR's Noel King talks to Mary McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general for National Security, about why.

William Barr and other federal law enforcement officials express sympathy for the family of George Floyd while denouncing violent protests in a press conference on Thursday.

Despite federal, state and local restrictions barring evictions during the COVID-19 crisis, housing activists say tenants are still being forced out of their homes.

The latest poll looking at the racial wealth gap during the pandemic shows that Black and Latino households are two times more likely than white households to have fallen behind on housing payments.

As Britain celebrates Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years for her as monarch, Newsweek editor Tina Brown recommends readings on the history of the queen's reign and her enduring popularity.

Most of the class of 2020 experienced canceled or online-only graduation ceremonies, but this year many colleges are finding creative ways to celebrate their graduates in person.

Various music styles, from singer-songwriters to dance music to hip-hop, emerged over the many years of Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba.

The young jazz pianist is just as comfortable with Thelonious Monk as he is with sampling audio, working with visual artists and performing with his trio. Watch his Bandwagon trio perform in NPR's Studio 4A, and hear a profile.

This year's event will put the descendants of those enslaved on the plantation in conversation with the descendants of the white plantation owners for the first time.

The songwriter talks about some of his greatest hits, including "MacArthur Park" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." His latest album, Just Across the River, features a series of duets with some of the singers he wrote for, including Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams and Vince Gill.

The 80-year-old Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out its awards in a ceremony hosted by comedian Jerrod Carmichael. Here's who won.

Special prosecutor Henry Schuelke, who earlier this month issued a blistering 500-page report about the Justice Department's actions, is due to testify.

Despite being a band rooted in California rock tradition, the local embrace of Fanny in Kansas City, Mo. speaks to how the band's ethos transcends geography.

As a kid, Kazuo Ishiguro saw Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru." "It made a terrific impact on me," the Nobel prize winner recalls. His film "Living" is nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In their new book On Minimalism, musicologists William Robin and Kerry O'Brien capture the lesser-known stories of the musical movement and its development, era by era.

Leaders of Gastonia's Ridgeview Charter School are asking the North Carolina Board of Education for a second chance to improve test scores. But a committee voted Tuesday to recommend cutting off the school's funding.

From Andrew Jackson to Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama, presidential inaugurations have had their share of mistakes and oddities throughout history.

The acting head of the Bureau of Land Management is defending the controversial relocation of the massive land agency's headquarters to a small western Colorado city 1,900 miles from Washington, D.C.