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Volunteers and community members attend the WPKY toy drive in Princeton, Ky.

For kids who survived tornadoes, Santa comes 'a little bit differently' this year

Holiday gift donations have poured in from across the country for children who survived the tornadoes in western Kentucky.

In this July 6, 2020, file photo a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Activists wanted Biden to revamp the justice system. Many say they're still waiting

Advocates who want big changes to the criminal justice system are pressing the Biden administration. They want him to grant clemency for a few thousand people and make key personnel decisions.

<em>Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays</em> by Siri Hustvedt

'Mothers, Fathers, and Others' addresses the realities of motherhood

Siri Hustvedt's essays bring into focus the profound contradictions of motherhood — often eclipsed by the cultural idealization of mothers as the model of self-sacrificing nurturance.

Olaf Scholz (center) and Saskia Esken (second left) of the Social Democrats, Annalena Baerbock (right) and Robert Habeck (second right) of the Greens and Christian Lindner (third right) of the Free Democrats pose for photos after signing a coalition agreement between the three parties on Tuesday in Berlin.

What you need to know about Germany's new chancellor and coalition government

Social Democratic politician Olaf Scholz takes over from center-right Angela Merkel as chancellor to lead a coalition of three different parties in government.

Outlaw Ned Kelly (George Mackay) slings his guns in<em> True History of the Kelly Gang.</em>

Portrait of the outlaw as a young man: 'True History of the Kelly Gang'

This slyly subversive revisionist take on an infamous Australian outlaw presents the burnished popular myth and a darker, brutal and tragicomic take alongside one another.

A nurse administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University, Long Beach campus.

Colleges with high vaccination rates must now decide if they'll require boosters

Wesleyan University is among a small group of colleges requiring COVID-19 boosters for spring semester. Will other institutions follow?

<em>Picture for Women</em>, 1979, transparency in lightbox

Why the photographer Jeff Wall relies on memory — not his camera — to make his art

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work "by not photographing."

Literary fiction dominates Maureen Corrigan's 2021 Best Books list

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan says 2021 was a spectacular year for literary fiction. As such, her annual Best Books list is exclusively composed of novels and short story collections.

Snoop Dogg presents the nominees for Best Performance By An Actor during the 79th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations at The Beverly Hilton.

Golden Globes nominees avoid obvious pitfalls, but won't restore awards' luster

Beyond the HFPA's year of scandal, the current nominations for the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards needed to make an urgent argument: Why should we still care about this awards show?

4 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico power grid remains in poor shape

NPR's Michel Martin talks with journalist Eliván Martínez Mercado about the state of Puerto Rico's power grid years after Hurricane Maria devastated it.

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