Blue Moon is Richard Linklater’s second feature this year, a portrait of the troubled lyricist Lorenz Hart. Nathan Weinbender says it’s not a great Linklater film, but it does have a great Ethan Hawke performance in it.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two movies that focus on characters who don’t so much flirt with crime but embrace it wholeheartedly.

Spokane Civic Theatre's production of All Is Calm joins host Henry McNulty in the studio to perform selections from the show.

August's Free SPR Kids' Concert featured sister-duo, Dry and Dusty in the River Park Square Atrium Saturday, August 23rd at 1 pm

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Data obtained and published by the Deportation Data Project shows that in the first nine months of President Trump's second term, around 75,000 people arrested by ICE did not have a criminal record, which is over a third of all ICE arrests. Co-host Leila Fadel talks to Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, about what this data tells us about the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Just days after signing a peace deal brokered by President Trump, the fighting between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo continues, with Rwanda-backed rebels taking a third major city.

NPR remembers supervising editor Kevin Drew, an award-winning journalist and esteemed colleague, who passed away last weekend.

Hamas says it is willing to lay down its weapons after two years of war in Gaza, but Israel may not agree to its main condition.

Every December, thousands of runners gather in a small northern Maine town to run a marathon through the frigid woods. The race started as an unlikely way to stoke the town's economy.

In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable.

Archie, a beloved canine and loyal listener, sings along with the "Morning Edition" theme music every morning at the top of the hour.

President Trump's brusque criticisms against Europe are calling into question America's relationship with some of its oldest allies and drawing reactions from its leaders.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic, about President Trump's transatlantic relationships and recent comments about Europe.

Trump downplays affordability at Pennsylvania rally, Fed expected to cut rates for a third straight time, Afghan CIA fighters, like National Guard attack suspect, face mental health struggles in U.S.