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The Federal Reserve is cracking down hard on inflation, in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the 1970s, when price hikes were so sustained, they got baked in to people's thinking.

Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel Kite Runner opens as a film in November. But it is already causing concern in Afghanistan and in Hollywood for its depiction of ethnic tensions in Afghanistan and harsh portrayal of life under the Taliban.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jessica Roth, a law professor at the Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University in New York, and a former federal prosecutor, about the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit.

One of the intended outcomes of Russia's war in Ukraine is to dissolve European unity on energy policy, analysts say, but the unity is so far holding firm.

"I've been looking forward to this day," said one member of the faith. "When I rang the first doorbell this morning, a total calm came over me. I was back where I needed to be."

Helen LaFrance was best known for her "memory paintings" depicting Black life in rural Kentucky. Now there are hopes her work will receive wider recognition with a retrospective in Louisville.

With his intense stage presence and relentless drive to improve, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan single-handedly brought Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, to the West and the non-Muslim world. In the process, he influenced an unlikely array of music around the world.

Resurfaced news about author Delia Owen may overshadow the film adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, her bestselling 2018 novel about a young woman raised in the marshes of North Carolina

Now that Roe is overturned, reproductive justice advocates say the U.S. is entering an era of policed pregnancy — women will be vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment for miscarriages or stillbirths.

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sacha Chadwick, a 30-year-old in New York City who works 2 jobs to support herself and pay off debt. She works daily and is exhausted.