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Updated federal guidance means many low-income families that want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a school program that helped them pay for meals.

Kirsten Dunst has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal. It's one of 12 nods that the film received.

The pandemic has been especially difficult on the mental health of Black Americans, who had already struggled to access care.

The Return of the King, the last film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, heads the Academy Awards race with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director. Master and Commander gets 10 Oscar nods. NPR's Kim Masters reports.

A growing number of Republicans are criticizing a resolution passed by the Republican National Committee last week that calls the deadly Jan. 6 riot "legitimate political discourse."

Some of this space debris ranges from tiny to the size of a school bus.

Many authors fear writer's block. But its opposite -- hypergraphia, the driving compulsion to write -- can be equally debilitating. A new book called The Midnight Disease considers the relationship between the wiring of the brain, writing and creativity. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with author and neurologist Alice Flaherty.

The Big Bounce is the 18th film since 1957 based on characters by Elmore Leonard. Leonard says that until the 1990s films Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, Hollywood almost always got his work wrong. Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA reports.

The recording industry gathers in Los Angeles for the 46th annual Grammy Awards Sunday. R&B and hip-hop artists dominate this year's nominees for record of the year... and a win often translates into record sales and prestige. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her latest collection of stories, The Dew Breaker. The interlinking tales reveal the character of a former Haitian torturer who now lives in Queens, New York, and struggles to come to terms with his past.