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There are pinball leagues and tournaments big enough to fill a whole convention center. For NPR host Juana Summers, a league gave her a way to connect — and it led to some lifelong friendships.

Melissa Block talks to Bennett Roth of the Houston Chronicle about Texas State Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen. Roth is working on a profile of Owen. She is "an exceptional jurist," according to one former colleague. But a group opposed to her nomination to the federal bench calls Owen "an extremist jurist even by Texas standards."

A new study finds American companies are using remote work as a way to avoid giving workers raises; so much so that it's helping to moderate inflation.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about the massive recovery needed after hurricane Ian.

Traffic fatalities are on the rise across the United States. Yet in some parts of the country, efforts born from both tragedy and political will have seen the numbers move in a different direction.

The White House is convening a day-long conference this week to review new proposals for tackling food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Barbara McQuade, professor at University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney, about the unsealing of former President Donald Trump's search warrant.

Gosling plays an assassin being chased by other assassins. That sounds exciting, but it isn't; it's a pileup of self-admiring one-liners and insanely violent but weirdly inconsequential action scenes.

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's expected return to the campaign trail comes as issues such as abortion rights and gun violence have taken on a new intensity.

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.