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Coming soon: the movie version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne's extravagantly long 18th-century novel. Like Ulysses, Naked Lunch and other books, it represents a daunting list of challenges to those who would turn it into a movie.

Profits are rising for oil companies. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts about accusations that those firms are price gouging and profiting from the Ukraine war.

Contributor Alexander Tuerk revisits departed family and the virtual worlds that sustained him in uncertain times.

A transcript of President Bush's announcement of his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the upreme Court.

The 1949 musical is getting its first Broadway remount, and its creative team says the story — about culture, life in wartime and the impact of American power abroad — resonates as profoundly as ever.

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, son of Indian immigrants, says he didn't think about his ethnic identity growing up. But on his new album Kinsmen, he and other like-minded South Asian American jazz musicians, fuse American jazz with a global sound that embraces the music of India.

Charitable gun raffles have proliferated in recent years as fundraisers for law enforcement and civic organizations. But recent mass shootings have caused some organizers to postpone or cancel.

Health researchers say the political divide is impacting Americans' health. A new study shows there is a growing life expectancy gap between Democratic and Republican counties.

When COVID-19 symptoms linger for weeks, but not long enough to become long COVID, it's confusing and scary for patients. Doctors say this is common. Should we start talking about medium COVID?

Russian forces have shown few signs of advancing but are still actively destroying Ukraine. In the southern city of Mariupol, bombs targeted a school which was sheltering about 400 displaced people.