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Will they? Won't they? And ... why do we care?

7:01am June 01, 2024

by Aisha Harris

Janine and Gregory. Jim and Pam. Sydney and Carmy? Critic Aisha Harris, a self-described will-they-won't-they grinch, explores our obsession with simmering sexual tension ... even when there is none.

Arts

Summer box office woes: Hollywood’s optimistic, but movie seats are still empty

11:16pm May 31, 2024

by Bob Mondello

After an already-slow spring, movie theater attendance over Memorial Day Weekend was the lowest in decades, apart from 2020.

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National

Hurricane Ian walloped Cape Coral, Fla. Two years later housing costs have spiked

11:16pm May 31, 2024

by Greg Allen

Nearly two years after Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida, for many, the dream of living in paradise is becoming unaffordable. Making the situation worse, because of lax permitting and development following the hurricane, FEMA is hiking the cost of flood insurance in vulnerable coastal communities like Cape Coral.

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President Biden Delivers Remarks On The Middle East From The White House

Politics & Government

President Biden unveils and endorses details of a new Israeli cease-fire proposal

11:15pm May 31, 2024

by Asma Khalid

President Biden gave remarks on the Middle East at the White House on Friday. He said it is time for the war in Gaza to end and discussed a "road map" to a cease-fire agreement.

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President Trump Holds A Press Conference At Trump Tower Day After Guilty Verdict

Trump allies say his felony conviction has helped unify Republicans

11:15pm May 31, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

Allies of former President Donald Trump say his felony conviction Thursday in a New York hush money case has helped energize and unify the Republican Party.

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Honoré Prentice (in yellow shirt and glasses), who lives in Canada, met three of his birth siblings, who live in the U.S., in person on Dec. 13, 2021. The brothers were all born in Haiti.

Health & Safety

When an adoptee reunites with birth siblings abroad: 'There's no instruction manual'

7:23pm May 31, 2024

by Kamala Thiagarajan

Reuniting with birth siblings after an international adoption is a challenging — and emotionally charged — mission. Here are stories from four families.

Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son.

National

The Florida deputy who shot U.S. airman Roger Fortson has been fired

7:21pm May 31, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

On Friday, the Okaloosa County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department said that Deputy Eddie Duran was fired following the completion of an administrative internal affairs investigation amid Fortson’s death.

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Science

'Chimney caps, vent pipes, gutters': Why some woodpeckers are major metal heads

5:30pm May 31, 2024

by Sacha Pfeiffer

When an NPR reporter heard a startling loud metallic noise in her house, she was about to get an interesting lesson in animal behavior.

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Arts

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

5:30pm May 31, 2024

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptations; the songs “Meter Run” and “Worth It” and Gasoline Rainbow.

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Arts

'The Dead Don’t Hurt' is a tender love story and a subversive Western

5:05pm May 31, 2024

by Justin Chang

You can’t immediately tell whether this film is trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It was written and directed by Viggo Mortensen, who stars alongside Vicky Krieps.

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