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Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have recently been revived in the podcast, "Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Adventure." We mark the occasion by listening to our 1989 interview with Jones, who died in 2022.

Risking beatings by the Taliban, Afghan women have taken to the streets to protest against the hard-line regime, its new curbs on their rights — and Pakistan's influence in their country.

The decision bypasses the Oregon Department of Agriculture's plan to phase out use of the pesticide, which has been linked to neurological harm, by 2023.

The mandate is the first of its kind for a U.S. airport, and goes into effect immediately.

Not all of the designs offered for the site of the World Trade Center have come from some of today's most important architects. A design originally proposed for the same site in 1908 by the well-known art noveau architect Antonio Gaudi will be entered into the competition this Spring. The proposal is the idea of a group of artists from Gaudi's native region in Spain. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Marc Mascourt i Boix the head of the Barcelona group about the proposal and Gaudi.

NPR's Scott Simon muses on some of the costumes he'd like to see this second pandemic Halloween.

Washington's National Mall will regain a star attraction Friday, when the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History reopens after a two-year renovation. It took $85 million and a horde of curators, builders, architects and advisers to reframe space for the museum's 3 million historic objects.

Madeleine Thien, the daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, lives in Quebec City, Canada. Her first novel, Certainty, has just been published in the United States. The book is ripe with juxtapositions.

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, Zaide, has just opened in New York.

Two sisters from Nashville, Tenn., remember their father David Hardee, who died of COVID-19 in March.