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The director's latest film is inspired by his desire to understand his mother. Set in Santa Barbara in 1979, it stars Annette Bening as a woman struggling to raise her teenage son on her own.

Dr. Raj Panjabi started Last Mile Health to bring health care to remote parts of Liberia. Now he has received the very generous TED Prize, to be used to fulfill "a wish."

Ross says he learned to "dish it out and take it" as a kid in Newark, N.J. He says that ideally a celebrity roast is "like a party where everybody goes and has a good time."

A new study by researchers at Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black boys, expecting trouble.

Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is near the top of the presidential polls in Utah. He talks about his background and why he's running a long-shot campaign.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose case against the Trump administration's travel ban led to Thursday night's ruling by the 9th Circuit Court.

A cancer patient and a coma victim credit her for their recovery. "You have to accept that there are things that science cannot explain," says an atheist physician who's investigated miracle stories.

There might be snakes and hyenas to scare off with a stick. And a swollen creek to cross.

Arkansas, a Bible Belt state that emphasizes abstinence-only in high school, is launching a mandatory program in its colleges and universities on strategies to prevent unplanned pregnancy.

Dawnie Walton talks with NPR's Scott Simon about her debut novel, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, an oral history of a 20th century rock duo so detailed, you might forget it's fiction.