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Tom Hanks used some of the pandemic slowdown to write a novel titled, <em>The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.</em>

Tom Hanks has starred in dozens of movies. Now he's written a novel, too

For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he's written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR's A Martinez.

'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center

By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

After packing the contents of the New Haven home she and her family were evicted from after living in it for ten years, Juana Valle hugs volunteer Briam Timko of Unidad Latina en Acción in New Haven.

‘I regret it’: How asking for healthy housing ended in an eviction record for one New Haven family

This mother paid her rent, turned to the city for help with housing code violations, and won a complaint for an unjust rent hike. Why was she still forced to leave?

Sunday Puzzle: Sibilant Solutions

Flora Greenberg of Albion, Calif. plays with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz

A ship passes through the Bosphorus strait on October 14, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Western leaders blast Russia's exit from grain deal that's helped ease global hunger

Leaders are condemning Moscow for triggering a new wave of fears about global hunger and rampant inflation with its decision to suspend participation in a U.N.-brokered grain agreement.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Monday in Washington, D.C.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings: What happened Monday

Democrats are hoping to finish Jackson's confirmation process before Congress leaves for Easter recess April 11.

Paul Volcker's costly, but ultimately successful, fight to tame inflation

Decades back, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker had a radical idea to fight against inflation.

CIA Director William Burns testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in March. Burns has focused the agency more on U.S. rivalries with Russia and China. He's been involved in the public release of U.S. intelligence on Russia's military plans in Ukraine, and he's established the China Mission Center at CIA headquarters.

At 75, the CIA is back where it started - countering the Kremlin

As the CIA's marks its 75th anniversary, Russia's war in Ukraine is giving the spy agency a new direction after dark periods during the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What's in store for the World Cup's Round of 16

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to ESPN host and analyst Luis Miguel Echegaray about the latest round of matches in the World Cup and what to expect from the U.S. team Saturday.

The long-awaited Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial opened in November, nearly 10 years after the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty first-graders and six adults were shot and killed by a young man with an AR-15-style rifle.

10 years after Sandy Hook, a family finds bits of joy amid shards of pain

Families who had their lives shattered on Dec. 14, 2012, are still straining under the weight of their losses — and still pushing for the changes they had hoped would have already happened by now.

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