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Enter the Dragon premiered 45 years ago this weekend. Bruce Lee was meant to break out as an international star, but instead, he died a month before the movie opened — elevating him to legend status.

David Edelstein reviews Body Of Lies, a new spy thriller directed by Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Set in Iraq and Syria, the film charts a young CIA operative's growing disillusionment with his superiors in Washington.

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday. He delivered a sober, plain-spoken inaugural address that did not contain the soaring rhetoric that often marked his campaign speeches. He told the crowd, "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility."

The U.S. Supreme Court formally opened its new term Monday, turning away 1,800 appeals that had accumulated over the summer. The justices also heard their first case, involving police questioning.

In "direct primary care," a model favored by HHS Secretary Tom Price, patients pay a monthly fee to doctors for basic health care. But does that really provide better value?

Rickly's first book is a solid and promising literary debut. He's a natural, albeit a germinal one. He is best known as a singer and songwriter of the rock band Thursday.

For many, Afghanistan does not at first conjure up images of black bears and musk deer. But that's just what Alex Dehgan found when his team went there in hope of establishing the first national park.

In his new book, primate behavior researcher Frans de Waal writes that "emotions are everywhere in the animal kingdom, from fish to birds to insects and even in brainy mollusks such as the octopus."

To fight global warming, the gas company is improving methane leak detection. Piedmont Natural Gas looks for leaks using new technology.

The New York Police Department is one of the most sophisticated in the world, with advanced systems for fighting crime. But it's not so good at policing its own officers, criminal justice experts say.

The media columnist for The New York Times died Thursday night after collapsing in the newsroom. David Carr expertly dissected journalism as an industry and as entertainment. He was 58.

Cultural figureheads are expected to speak out about world events. But some are facing real-world consequences for making public declarations about the present conflict.

The former president questioned the political leanings of the judge in the case and another person. The judge inferred that to mean Trump was referring to his clerk.

Read an excerpt from historian Bob Riesman's look at the great blues man's ever-evolving persona.

Pirates, pokers and alleged demonic origins — the history of rum is filled with raucousness and rebellion. To celebrate National Rum Day, we bring you tales from this drink's past, including its laudable origins as a food waste solution.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century evokes another famous tome with "capital" in its title, and makes comparisons inevitable.

Last month, Ronstadt revealed that she has Parkinson's disease and can no longer sing. Her new memoir, Simple Dreams, reflects on a long career. In this conversation with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, she offers frank insights on sex, drugs, and why "competition was for horse races."

Matthew Desmond made his name writing a detailed, searingly blunt book about the effects of eviction on poor American families. His new book tackles an even bigger subject: Poverty, and why it persists in the U.S. despite our nation’s great wealth. And — perhaps a bit incongruously for someone who writes about the myriad ways poverty, racism and a lack of opportunity grind people down — he thinks we all fall too readily into the trap of cynicism, resignation and even despair.

Monson had been at the helm of the 16 million-member Mormon church for nearly a decade. He'll be remembered for his quiet leadership and aversion to grand pronouncements.

New medications like Wegovy are changing the way people lose weight and manage obesity, but many Medicaid beneficiaries can't get them.