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NPR's Scott Simon talks with documentarian Gary Hustwit about his new film "Eno" about Brian Eno, the legendary musician who produced David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads and was a member of Roxy Music.

After Minnesota lawmakers approved a measure to legalize the sale of certain types of THC edibles, at least one Republican said he didn't realize what he was approving.

The 49-year-old actor's manager asked for privacy for his family and friends. His character was first seen as a villain before becoming inducted as the Green Ranger.

A group called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has grabbed four oil workers and also attacked pipelines and platforms of Royal Dutch Shell. Shell is the biggest producer in the swamplands of the Niger River Delta. Financial Times reporter Dino Mahtani discusses developments with Steve Inskeep.

A new collaboration with Oxford American magazine spotlights the South, starting with a dispatch from the most obese county in the U.S.

A new collaboration with Oxford American magazine spotlights the South, starting with a dispatch from the most obese county in the U.S.

A new study from the University of Hong Kong offers preliminary information that could explain why this new coronavirus variant may be more transmissible.

Elizabeth Kulas is a producer on Planet Money. Before that, she produced shows at WNYC, Gimlet and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2016, she was part of the NPR team that reported on the Wells Fargo banking scandal. That reporting won a George Foster Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Before falling in love with making audio, she studied Art History and German, with a focus on life in the former East Germany. She graduated from The University of Melbourne in her native Australia, with stints at Barnard College, New York and Berlin's Free University. Right now, she's entirely obsessed with space.

A loophole in the farm bill allows for the sale of hemp products that include a form of THC. North Carolina is one state where stores selling intoxicating hemp products have popped up.

"Acting allowed me to channel this neurosis into a character," Harbour says. He plays the skeptical police chief of a sleepy town besieged by supernatural events in the Netflix series.