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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress Gillian Anderson about her new book, Want, which is a compilation of women's anonymous, sexual fantasies from all over the world.

Connecticut election officials are partnering with colleges and universities across the state to get out the vote and train students to be poll workers during the upcoming election.

Senate Republicans blocked a bill to ensure federal protections for access to in vitro fertilization treatments, calling it a "show" vote by Democrats. Republican leaders and Former President Trump, the GOP nominee for president, say they back IVF but not the legislation proposed by Democrats.

On his new album, Éxodo, regional Mexican hitmaker Peso Pluma gives listeners a sampler of his burgeoning potential as a multi-genre star.

The joyous Jewish holiday celebrates Jews' escape from annihilation as told in the Book of Esther. A lesser-known end to the story takes on new meaning during this time of war in the Middle East.

Glen Powell co-wrote Netflix's Hit Man alongside Richard Linklater, of the Before trilogy. The story is based on a Texas Monthly profile of a real undercover cop.

Filed in federal court Tuesday, the case argues that the new law “erects severe and needless barriers” to vote.

Some people who oppose the British monarchy have staged protests in recent days. They've been questioned, detained or even arrested by police.

J. Edgar Hoover made the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the organization it is today. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, Beverly Gage joins us to talk about Hoover’s life and legacy.

Maine health care providers have issued steadily fewer opioid prescriptions for about a decade, yet the state still had the highest opioid prescription rate in New England in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The steady fall shows the progress the state has made in dispensing fewer of the opioids that powered an addiction epidemic that has killed thousands of Mainers, as well as the effects of a 2016 state law that restricted opioid prescriptions. Maine’s opioid prescription rate has been lower than the nation’s as a whole since 2017.