Search results for

The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

The authors of a new book argue that efforts to raise achievement for students at the bottom have come at the expense of the most gifted and talented.

A new survey of the most expensive cities in the world puts Luanda and N'djamena at the top. How did these African capitals beat our perennial top dollar towns like Hong Kong and Tokyo?

Vashti Cunningham, 18, is on a roll. She set a world junior record and won the world indoor championship in March, while still in high school. She has now turned pro and has her eyes set on Rio.

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

Missouri lawmakers are trying again to reduce the duration of state jobless benefits to one of the shortest periods nationally.House members gave the…

Missouri's unemployment rate increased in March, though the size of payrolls also grew.The Department of Economic Development reported Tuesday that the…

A special bonus episode of River Town! Our producers traveled to Marthasville, Missouri to interview hikers, cyclists, conservationists, musicians and all manner of people visiting the Peers Store, a historic landmark along the Katy Trail, on a summer Saturday.

In our weekly series, Lost and Found Sound, a collaboration between NPR and independent producers, we learn about self-appointed disc-jockey Eric Byron.