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In 1970, a teenager found a handmade album in a pile of trash. Inside were 283 extraordinary drawings made on mental hospital stationery. The Electric Pencil tells the artist's story.

Christopher Nolan's historical thriller Oppenheimer — based on American Prometheus, the biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb.

Joe Kennedy lectures burping baby Ted on political ambition while teenagers Joe Jr. and John wrestle for the presidency. Cartoonist Kate Beaton irreverently recasts history and classic literature in her new book, Hark! A Vagrant.

Former president Donald Trump is expected back in a New York courtroom Thursday in one of the final days for the defense in his civil fraud trial.

Former President Donald Trump and two of his children are accused of exaggerating the value of their real estate.

It's Opening Day for major league baseball! We talk with baseball reporter Chelsea Janes to get her take on most exciting teams and players.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with David Thomas, president of Morehouse College, about preparations — and controversy — ahead of President Joe Biden's commencement address there next weekend.

A collision between Philippine and Chinese Coast Guard vessels in the South China Sea earlier this month has again raised fears of an escalation in an area China claims almost entirely as its own.

The island nation of Palau is at the center of tensions involving the U.S., China and Taiwan. It's a delicate geopolitical balancing act that Palau has had to do since its inception.

A survey from NPR/PBS News/Marist finds that most Americans think President Biden did the right thing by passing the torch to Vice President Harris, instead of continuing his bid for a second term.