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"I know it is happening in some communities," Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, adding voice to a controversial phenomenon known as the Ferguson effect.

The Middle Eastern kingdom says 26 people tested positive for the virus after the large gathering, reportedly including a guest who flew in from Canada.

Three elderly Austrian nuns recently fled a nursing home and broke into their former convent. They have rejected an offer to stay in convent if they promise to get off of social media.

Sister Theresa Kane, a champion for women's ordination in the Catholic church, has died. She even spoke directly to Pope John Paul II about the issue during his visit to the U.S. in 1979.

On today's episode, a preview of the municipal and school board elections; Carlock's mayor discusses the Unit 5 tax referendum and the potential closure of the village's grade school; plus Bloomington city manager Tim Gleason discusses homelessness, the city's vehicle use tax and naming rights for the downtown arena.

Eliza Bidois is a Maori writer from Rotorua, New Zealand. After the death of her sister this year, she experienced the three day traditional Maori wake that takes place in the central space of the Maori village, the Marai. During the three days the family slept next to her sister's coffin inside the ancestral house---they cared for the body, sang traditional songs---and in the end were reassured that her sister was in a better place.

The Kitchen Sisters production team takes a look into the long held Scottish tradition of honesty boxes - where you leave the money in the box and take what you need.

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's latest film. Critic Justin Chang calls The Sisters Brothers a "funny, stirring, brutal story."

Bloomington’s mayor says the city’s next police chief will need to have significant experience and be able to navigate the “friction” around policing that’s been more prominent since George Floyd’s murder.

Eleanor Brown speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about her new novel, The Weird Sisters, which imagines the lives of three sisters and their obsessive Shakespearean scholar father who prefers iambic pentameter to normal, everyday conversation.