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In 'Overcompensating,' Benito Skinner turns old wounds into comedy

4:23pm May 15, 2025

by Tinbete Ermyas

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Benito Skinner about his new show, Overcompensating, out on Amazon Prime on May 15.

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White House Says U.S. Will Move Away From Goods Made By Forced Labor In Xinjiang

by Jackie Northam

The Biden administration announced measures to eliminate goods made by forced labor in China's Xinjiang region from supply chains used by U.S. companies.

Review: 'F9' Puts The Pedal To The Metal To Restart The Hollywood Blockbuster

by Bob Mondello

F9, the latest film in the Fast & Furious franchise is also the film that's supposed to restart the Hollywood blockbuster.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., decided to create a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection after a bipartisan bill to set up an outside commission was filibustered by Senate Republicans.

Politics & Government

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Launches Select Committee To Probe Jan. 6 Insurrection

by Claudia Grisales

John McAfee talks to the media outside Beacon Hotel where he stayed after arriving from Guatemala in December 2012 in Miami Beach, Fla. McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday, according to his lawyer.

John McAfee, Software Pioneer, Found Dead In A Spanish Prison Cell

by Bobby Allyn

Hurricane Irma damaged homes in the Florida Keys in 2017. A new study finds buildings in the contiguous U.S. are concentrated in disaster-prone areas.

Science

More Than Half Of U.S. Buildings Are In Places Prone To Disaster, Study Finds

by Rebecca Hersher

Amid Civil War, Ethiopia Holds Elections

Against a backdrop of violence in the nation's Tigray region, Ethiopia held elections Monday. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Tsedale Lemma, editor of Addis Standard, about what's at stake.

Britney Spears at a movie premiere in 2019. She pleaded with a judge on Wednesday to end a conservatorship that has controlled her personal and business lives for years.

Britney Spears Asks Court To End Conservatorship, Detailing Its Control Over Her Life

by Andrew Limbong

Courtney Blashka, director of community forestry & conservation at Holden Forests & Gardens, tidies up the soil around a newly planted oak tree that's a clone of the tree that Jesse Owens planted.

Bringing Back Trees To "Forest City's" Redlined Areas Helps Residents And The Climate

by Dan Charles

Biden Has A Plan To Curb Gun Violence Using COVID-19 Aid Money

by Franco Ordoñez

With gun violence on the rise, President Biden is talking about his plans to let states use funding from the COVID-19 aid package to help address it.

India Says New 'Delta Plus' Coronavirus Variant May Be More Transmissible

by Lauren Frayer

India has detected over 40 cases of a new coronavirus variant called "Delta Plus," which may be more transmissible and resistant to COVID-19 treatments.

National

SCOTUS: Union Organizers Cannot Access California Farms

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Aaron Tang about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling deciding that a California regulation allowing unions to engage with workers in their workplace is unconstitutional.

The Effect Of Nikole Hannah-Jones' Tenure Denial On Black Faculty, Staff And Students

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dawna Jones, Carolina Black Caucus chair and assistant dean of students, about faculty morale at UNC-Chapel Hill and the mishandling of Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure.