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On a summer night in 1955, one of the most acclaimed films of all time made its world premiere in Des Moines. It was one of the most monumental film events in the city’s history, and yet today that first screening of The Night of the Hunter remains largely overlooked. The Varsity Cinema is looking to fix that by screening the movie for its 70th anniversary.

This weekend features three top-10 matchups, the most ever for an opening weekend in college football history. And Arch Manning, the most hyped player of a generation, will start for the first time.

Harper Moyski, age 10, and Fletcher Merkel, age 8, were killed, and 18 children between the ages 6 and 15 were injured by a shooter. Middle schoolers acted heroically to protect others, a parent said.

Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.

NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they've faced tribulations.

Horror author Ira Rat hopes to give Iowa writers in the genre a space to connect with the inaugural One of Us horror fiction convention.

In The Roses, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch play a vicious couple spiraling toward divorce. A Little Prayer tells a more tender story about a relationship on the rocks.

Local authorities are reviewing hundreds of pieces of evidence. They say the shooter left troves of notes and plans expressing hate toward multiple groups.

On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day.

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.