Ari Shapiro

"The older I get, and the more experience I gather — as an actor and as a human being — the more I'm interested in things that are real," Moore says. She stars in the new film Gloria Bell.

Filmmaker Dan Reed discusses his four-hour documentary, Leaving Neverland, which features two men claiming Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children.

The rookie musher and her team of rock-star racers, with their own social media following, face heavy snow, subzero temperatures and 938 miles of Alaskan wilderness.

The English actor performed in, directed and wrote the screenplay for The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. It's based on a memoir by William Kamkwamba, whose ingenuity helped save his village from famine.

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is expected to pass a resolution blocking the president from using a national security declaration to pay to build a border wall.

President Trump has pledged to eliminate HIV in America by 2030. But in the South, rates of HIV/AIDS among black gay and bisexual men remain stubbornly high.

Honey? You awake? The soft glow of a smartphone screen, the caress of sweatpants, a new collection of poems by John Kenney celebrates what happens to romance after years (and years) of marriage.

The veteran soul singer released her 30th studio album, Unstoppable, last year. Staton talks about the inspiration behind her new music, her battle with cancer and her message to women everywhere.

James' new novel is an epic fantasy that he's described as an African Game of Thrones, featuring a rag-tag band of adventurers on a possibly doomed quest, with plenty of blood, sex and monsters.

Gov. Northam has made a call for racial dialogue after his yearbook photo controversy, but these conversations are hard to have productively.

Writer and director Dan Gilroy brings back Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo for his newest feature, a horror-comedy set in the modern art world. Also, the male lead is named Morf.

Thirteen-year-old Genesis keeps a running list of things about herself that she hates — her skin is #95. Debut author Alicia D. Williams says she hopes her book will help young people "heal."

After airing a piece featuring a federal worker who wasn't sure if he could get his son a birthday present, a number of NPR listeners wrote to us wanting to help.

The federal prison in Oakdale, La., provided well-paying jobs and good benefits. Now, its some 400 workers are feeling intense pressure — and the effects are reaching all corners of the town.

In the town of Oakdale, La., the government shutdown has far-reaching effects, from restaurants to barber shops, all the way up to the mayor's office.

Prison guards have to be tough on the job. But after weeks of working without pay, corrections officers at a federal prison in rural Louisiana are feeling exhaustion, stress and high emotions.

After taking a break, Van Etten tweaks her sound and loves the many versions of herself on her latest album, Remind Me Tomorrow.

As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, federal workers are struggling to make ends meet. But according to Jamiles Lartey, the shutdown is having a disproportionate effect on black workers.

Jemisin is the only author to win three Hugo Awards in a row — for her Broken Earth trilogy, which begins with an apocalypse. She says she likes to explore what apocalypses mean for different people.

In Raqqa, where many streets are still filled with rubble from the battle to force out ISIS a year ago, people are shocked and worried about the U.S. decision to pull out of Syria.