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After making ‘ET’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of ...

Lam was one of five people from Causeway Bay Books who disappeared in 2015. He later detailed his detention by Chinese ...

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On a special mid-year episode of New Music Friday, host Stephen Thompson and a lineup of NPR Music writers and critics ...

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Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says President Trump "stands alone" in having substantial financial ...

World Cafe took a visit to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia to discover the conflict's musical history.

The United States turns 250 tomorrow, but a brutal heat wave is already forcing cities to cancel parades and fireworks, and Washington D.C. will decide this morning whether the public can even attend ...

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, frontline health workers are battling an Ebola outbreak with little protection.

It's a historic weekend in Philadelphia. We're celebrating with some local veterans who've been playing together for 35 years ...