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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with actor Abby Ryder Fortson about her role playing Margaret Simon in the film adaptation of Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

An American team is in Europe this week for a medieval combat competition. They dress up in period costumes and fight with dulled weapons.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and Johns Hopkins University financial history professor, Kathleen Day, on the history of the debt ceiling.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Porter about his new novel, "Shy," about a teenager's attempt to escape a home for troubled boys and the inner turmoil he experiences along the way.

Mortgage rates have fluctuated a lot in the last year and interest rates are still climbing. No one knows for sure when the housing market will improve, and not everyone is waiting until it does.

Lacking connection can increase the risk for premature death to levels comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, according to a new advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General.

Major newspapers in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco are among those that have acknowledged they published dozens of items in print or online that appeared under fake bylines. The items in question were not written by reporters at the papers but by employees of a news outsourcing firm called Journatic.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the need for a code of ethics for the Supreme Court. The issue has arisen following news reports about several justices and their business dealings.

Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S. The Biden administration says it’s time the system is reformed. We hear how to improve America’s organ transplant system.