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Succession has always been a sharply written show, but there is a delicious restraint in this final season that feels new. Above, Sarah Snook as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy.

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'Succession' returns for a fourth and final season of family back-stabbing

3:01am March 22, 2023

by Linda Holmes

The creators are holding Season 4 close to the vest for obvious reasons. But the Roy family is back and off to an emotionally complicated, darkly funny, bantering, betraying, punch-packing start.

Actor Gwyneth Paltrow looks on before leaving the courtroom on Tuesday in Park City, Utah, where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier in 2016 and leaving him with brain damage and four broken ribs.

Gwyneth Paltrow appears in a Utah court for a trial over a 2016 ski crash

6:18pm March 21, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

The trial has been seven years in the making, and on Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actress appeared in Park City for a jury trial that will determine who was at fault in the 2016 crash.

An unhoused individual sleeps under an American flag blanket in New York City on Sept. 10, 2013. In 2021, approximately 11% of Americans lived below the federal poverty line.

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

4:41pm March 21, 2023

by Dave Davies

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."

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'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces generations of descendants of the mathematician

10:05am March 21, 2023

by Ericka Taylor

Rachel Jamison Webster learned she is related to Benjamin Banneker at a cousin's wedding. The news was unexpected, not only because of Banneker's place in history but also because the author is white.

Billy Crudup plays a salesman marketing timeshares on the moon in the futuristic series Hello Tomorrow!

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From 'Almost Famous' to definitely famous, Billy Crudup is enjoying his new TV roles

7:53am March 21, 2023

by Dave Davies

Crudup stars as a fast-talking salesman in the retro-futurist Apple TV+ series Hello Tomorrow! He won an Emmy for his role as a cynical TV executive in the series The Morning Show.

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It's World Poetry Day: NPR's love of poetry goes back to its founding

7:39am March 21, 2023

On World Poetry Day, we look at how people are sometimes compelled to express their feelings and ideas through poems.

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The Persian New Year marks the beginning of spring

7:24am March 21, 2023

Nowruz, commonly known as the Persian New Year, symbolizes revival and renewal for its more than 300 million celebrants in modern-day Iran and beyond.

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Adam Sandler accepts Mark Twain prize on March 19.

Big names including Steve Buscemi, Conan O'Brien come out to honor Adam Sandler

1:25pm March 20, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and Chris Rock were also among those in Washington, D.C. this weekend to celebrate Sandler, who worked on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s and moved on to films.

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In 'The Teachers,' passion motivates, even as conditions grow worse for educators

9:02am March 20, 2023

by Gabino Iglesias

Alexandra Robbins illuminates how teachers, who shape our future, live a constant battle against financial pressure, entitled parents, politicians, and the educational system at the local level.

'Swarm' is about how we're doing fandom wrong

6:38am March 20, 2023

by Aisha Harris

The bizarre new thriller created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover serves as a spikey admonishment of celebrity worship. Dominique Fishback stars as a much too devoted fan.