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Sea levels are rising even faster on the East Coast and Gulf Coast. And advances in climate science mean we can see the future clearly for the first time.

In today's roundup of reviews for the week's new movies from online magazine Slate, we'll hear about Zodiac, Wild Hogs and Black Snake Moan.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about this weekend's movie releases: The Da Vinci Code, Over the Fence and See No Evil.

Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, the Academy named Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog and Denis Villeneuve's Dune as the big possible Oscar winners this year.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about this weekend's major movie releases -- A Scanner Darkly, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the documentary Once in a Lifetime.

Impressionist Jim Meskimen does many, many celebrity voices. You may have heard his George W. Bush, or perhaps his Morgan Freeman.

Gearing up to go to the theater this weekend? Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan has a roundup of reviews of this week's new movies, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Broken Flowers and Chumscrubber.

What are movie critics saying about this weekend's releases? Mark Jordan Legan of Slate takes note of reviews for Doogal, Running Scared and the Oscar-nominated South African film Tsotsi.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant about the drama at the Australian Open, and also about the NFL playoffs kicking off this weekend.

The three white men sentenced to life in prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery are now standing trial on federal hate crime charges. At issue is whether the men targeted Arbery because he was Black.

Fifty years ago, Roger Bannister ran the world's first mile under four minutes. Just six weeks later, John Landy broke Bannister's record, setting up a face-off between the world's first two men to achieve that long-elusive goal. Read an excerpt from The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb.

What are the critics saying about this weekend's movie releases? Mark Jordan Legan serves up the dish on Thank You for Smoking, She's the Man and the futuristic thriller V for Vendetta.

Director Brad Bird makes his live-action debut with Ghost Protocol, the latest film in the Mission: Impossible franchise starring Tom Cruise. Critic David Edelstein says the movie is "wonderful fun" and "in a different league than its predecessors."

As Rep. Nancy Pelosi tosses the first pitch at the Washington Nationals "Out Night" for Pride Month, we look at those who've put their best foot forward and who've come up short at the pitching mound.

Out of print, odd and obscure, Souled American's esoteric take on country music is now available digitally for the first time. We asked composer Sarah Hennies to pick a place to begin.

A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan's Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors fell on top of each other, officials said.

The Utah Data Center, 26 miles south of Salt Lake City, will begin operations in September. Though the NSA director has said it won't hold data on U.S. citizens, privacy advocates worry about the agency's expanding capabilities.

More than 3,100 are moving out of the Bureau of Prisons system on Friday and the Justice Department is making other changes to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

The government executed Daniel Lee, who was convicted of murdering three people, by lethal injection — marking the resumption of federal capital punishment for the first time in 17 years.

North Carolina Republicans in the General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 20 — which bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy — and reactions are pouring in from across the U.S.