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The award-winning film, The Magdalene Sisters, examines a now-defunct practice of the Catholic Church in Ireland. More than 30,000 women and young girls considered "immoral" were sent to live in "Magdalene Asylums." Their sins, sometimes as benign as flirting, earned these women a life of hard labor and punishment. Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Kevin Costner's latest film is Open Range, a western that takes the actor and director back to familiar territory. Robert Duvall and Annette Bening co-star. Los Angeles Times film critic Ken Turan offers a review.

For many Americans, the hula dance conjures images of grass skirts, coconuts and swinging hips. But a new documentary airing Tuesday on PBS looks beyond hula kitsch to explore its roots in ancient Hawaiian traditions. Hear Lisette Marie Flanary, co-producer of American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii.

Helen Dillon is a conjurer, mixing plants, colors and shapes in seemingly random combinations. NPR's Ketzel Levine recently visited Dillon's grand garden in Dublin and has a report for Morning Edition. See photos of the garden and read Dillon's insights.

The film Thirteen is based on the true story of Nikki Reed. In her search to be accepted in junior high, Reed hung out with a fast crowd, getting caught up in drugs and shoplifting. Hear NPR's Jacki Lyden, director Catherine Hardwicke and Reed, who also helped write the movie script.

Canadian truckers protesting a COVID vaccine mandate are blocking traffic on the busiest international crossing in North America, which may have major supply chain implications for Canada and the U.S.

A Rhode Island man in his 80s had planned to spend the winter somewhere warm with his wife. Instead, he's among the many people waiting for the COVID wave to break so his surgery can be rescheduled.

Tiny, robotic fish powered by human heart cells suggest that scientists are getting closer to their goal of building replacement hearts from living tissue.

The condemnation is growing against Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who was the first Senate Republican to announce he would vote to object to the Electoral College results.

Both the Democratic and the Republican candidates in Georgia's Senate runoffs ran as a unified ticket, but Raphael Warnock outpaced Jon Ossoff. NPR looks at how voters split their decisions.