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NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Kristin Scott Thomas and her husband, journalist John Micklethwait. The pair wrote the screenplay for the new movie, "My Mother's Wedding."

Be they girls, or be they dogs? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Xenobe Purvis about her debut novel, "The Hounding," where rumors about five girls turn deadly in 18th-century England.

A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: Leave voluntarily, or you'll be detained and deported. This has forced some immigrant families in the U.S. to grapple with very hard choices.

President Trump said his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine is set to happen "very shortly." But where exactly this meeting will take place is unclear, as the options for the two are limited.

This Iowan became famous for his writing about farm life and was the first to receive an honorary degree from the University of Northern Iowa.

More than 90 Muslim scholars, community leaders and institutions are calling on Muslim nations to leverage their influence to end what they described as escalating genocide in Gaza by Israeli forces.

The Trump administration has replaced former Missouri Congressman Billy Long as IRS Commissioner, after less than two months on the job. It's the latest in a string of management shakeups at the tax collection agency.

Alexander Sammon received a suspicious job recruitment text from someone who claimed to be a hiring manager. He decided to play along to see how far the scam would go, and wrote about it for Slate.

The mosquito-borne disease is sweeping through a province in southern China, which is taking strict measures to quash the outbreak.