The Toronto Blue Jays, with a 4-3 win in Monday night's American League Championship Series Game 7 over the Seattle Mariners, are headed back to the World Series for the first time in more than 30 ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

After two years of war between Israel and Hamas, a ceasefire largely continues to hold. The initial phase of the ceasefire plan brokered by President Trump saw Israeli forces pulling back to ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. "What do you think would look better: pink or green?" The bubblegum ...

In 1975, New York City ran out of money. For a decade it had managed to pay for its hundreds of thousands of city employees and robust social services by taking on billions of dollars in debt. But ...

Automaker Stellantis plans to fire up its Belvidere Assembly Plant again, nearly three years after shuttering one of the region’s biggest employers. Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest ...

State Farm is headquartered in Bloomington and is McLean County's largest employer. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a lawsuit against State Farm alleging the insurance giant has not ...

This week, the sales for Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl finally hit the Billboard charts, and the album is — would you just believe it? — a huge success. Released Oct. 3, Swift's 12th studio LP ...

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October 14, 2025; Washington, D.C. – On October 18, NPR will launch Books We've Loved, a new limited series from the team that produces NPR's Book of the Day podcast. This series invites listeners to ...

TEL AVIV — President Trump declared the Gaza war over and received a standing ovation in Israel's parliament then in Egypt at a signing ceremony on Monday for his leading role in bringing about a ...

There are countless videos on social media showing similar scenes. One, filmed by a photographer in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man pinned to the ground by two ICE officers. He pleads in Spanish and ...