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Republican and Democratic conventions show that both parties are appealing to faith voters. They have mostly different target audiences, though Catholics are getting special attention this year.

This year, Hollywood will release 28 movie sequels — more than any other year — and while all these Part 2s, 3s and 4s may be good for the industry's bottom line, it's making NPR movie critic Bob Mondello's job tricky.

In an address to the U.S. Congress, Israel's president emphasized the close ties between the two countries, even as some progressive Democrats boycotted the speech.

Rick Moody's new novel takes the form of online travel reviews written by the lonely but oddly eloquent Reginald Morse. Critic Jason Sheehan says it's Moody at his most inventive, playful and biting.

Tamara Shopsin's quirky, lively memoir of her unconventional Greenwich Village childhood is packed with vivid details about the cast of characters who populated her parents' corner store-turned-diner.

New Hampshire law requires it to hold the country's first presidential primary, but Democrats will have their first primary in South Carolina. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 6, 2023.)

In Utah, rescue crews are drilling holes from the surface to try to provide ventilation — as well as communication — to the location of the six miners, trapped since a mine collapsed Monday. One of the owners of the mine says rescuers hope to reach the men Thursday.

People at Washington's Lincoln Memorial and other places in the city offer their views on the result of the 2008 presidential election. Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain to become the first African-American president in the nation's history.

The House has passed the Treasury's financial rescue plan and President Bush has signed it. The measure's passage marks a turnaround just four days after the House rejected the measure. Many lawmakers switched their votes from no to yes.

State officials seeking to cover birth control methods for both men and women are trying to make sure the new law doesn't conflict with federal rules for health savings accounts.