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Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus — in other words, the illusion of a square — in a new study in which pet owners provided the data.

Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

Harley Race's Night-School Pro Wrestling Classes

Eight-time National Wrestling Alliance champion Harley Race runs a professional wrestling school in Missouri. He holds his classes on this unique form of brutal ballet in the evening, because all his students have day jobs. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.

Harry Potter Fans Slug Down Pages of 'Prince'

The highly anticipated sixth installment of J.K. Rowling's novel about a child wizard was released Saturday. NPR's Neva Grant followed two youngsters who spent the weekend immersed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Neutral Milk Hotel Album Transformed For Stage

With songs about Anne Frank's final months at Bergen-Belsen, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hardly seems like the stuff of high school theater. But with the aid of The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, students in Lexington, Mass., have turned the seminal indie rock album into a surrealist production.

Sen. Cory Booker says we are witnessing 'a Jackie Robinson moment for our nation'

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, about the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for a seat in the Supreme Court.

The difficulties the superintendent of the year sees in this school year and forward

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Curtis Cain, the 2022 National Superintendent of the Year, about the challenges in the current and incoming school year.

South African actress Khanyi Mbau, one of the stars of Netflix's new original reality show set in Africa, <em>Young, Famous & African. </em>

Opinion: 5 Things I'd change about Netflix's 'Young, Famous & African'

If Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor could have a hand in creating another season of the reality show, he'd ditch the 'Real Housewives' drama and get the cast to talk about COVID vaccines.

In this undated photograph, Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio is holding one of her sons, John. Lucio is set to be executed on April 27 for the 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah.

Lawyers hope new evidence can stop Texas woman Melissa Lucio's execution

Lawyers say an ambiguous statement by Lucio during questioning was wrongly interpreted by prosecutors as a murder confession, during the investigation into her daughter Mariah's 2007 death.

Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard with riot gears outside the National Assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 3, 2022.

Pakistan is thrown into crisis after the prime minister dissolves parliament

The nation's politics was thrust into disarray after Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved parliament ahead of a vote on a no-confidence motion in which he was widely expected to lose.

In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan national army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan.

House to vote on bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits

The bill would open up federal health care benefits to millions of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service.

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