1+ hour, 58+ min ago  (194+ words) When filmmakers are cranking out blockbusters, Tinseltown can seem like any other business " customer satisfaction measured in popcorn sales and audience smiles. But when filmmakers are passionate, movies can make audiences vibrate " with grief, with excitement, with rage. And that…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (400+ words) Bob Kafka, a renowned disability rights advocate, died at his Austin, Texas, home on Friday. He was 79 years old. Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy change to support…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (317+ words) Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind bestselling video games such as Call of Duty, has died. He was 55. Video game company Electronic Arts said Zampella died Sunday. The company did not disclose his cause of death. Jason Munkel introduced…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1013+ words) An anonymous donor stepped in last month to save a Seattle-area community center that was slated to close. Last week, community members learned that the new owner was travel writer and TV host Rick Steves, who pledged to keep it…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1820+ words) Congress is wrapping up the year in the shadow of the longest government shutdown and with a growing reputation as the least productive in modern history. "Congress is in a coma. It has a pulse, but not many brainwaves," said…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (892+ words) ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. " President Trump will visit Rocky Mount, N.C., on Friday, capping off a week in which his administration has attempted to reassure Americans that the nation's economy is improving. On Wednesday, the president gave a primetime address stating that the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (201+ words) Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The tides move so quickly on the island of Chilo" that they are part of the local lore. This…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (302+ words) The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good " they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (639+ words) When Rob Reiner spoke with Fresh Air in September to promote Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Terry Gross asked him about Being Charlie, a 2015 film he collaborated on with his son Nick Reiner. The film was a semiautobiographical story of…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (340+ words) Many questions remain following the arrest of Nick Reiner. The 32-year-old is being held without bail on suspicion of murdering his parents, beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. Nick was arrested Sunday after Rob and…...