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This year's Perseid meteor shower may be hard to see because it coincides with a so-called supermoon. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Caltech professor Mike Brown about the dueling celestial events.

The actor appeared in hundreds of films and shows, including M*A*S*H, Klute, Ordinary People and the Hunger Games franchise. He was best known for playing off-kilter authority figures.

From the Bronx, Pacheco was previously named New York City youth poet laureate and the inaugural New York state youth poet laureate.

Louvre Director Laurence des Cars said her institution is looking at upgrading both the visitor experience surrounding the iconic painting as well as the museum overall.

What's orange and black and says "knock knock?" On Halloween, children in St. Louis are expected to tell jokes in order to earn their candy.

The Seinfeld star plays the mother of a terminally ill girl being visited by Death, who has taken the physical form of a giant parrot, in new film.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

The editorials editor of the LA Times resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported.

The iconic orange roofs of Howard Johnson's restaurants were once fixtures of the American highway. But the chain faded in the '80s. The 60-year-old location in Lake Placid, N.Y., closed Tuesday.

Gloria Estefan became the first Latina inducted into the the hall. Among the others admitted, Glen Ballard, who co-wrote Alanis Morrissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill.