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Washington's orcas are hungry, because there aren't enough salmon for them to eat. State officials want to take out some dams to help them, but that would hurt Washington's wheat farmers.

After Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river, she said the Olympics were "a kind of magnet that attracted all our energies towards a single date, July 26, and we did it.”

NPR's Bob Mondello and Marc Rivers join host Andrew Limbong to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's new film and other films that reflect the politics and tensions of our time.

It has been days since Hurricane Florence struck the Carolinas. But in some parts of the state, the worst may be yet to come. The Cape Fear River, which borders Fayetteville, could crest to 62 feet.

The American beaver was once a fixture of this area, at the confluence of three rivers by the shores of Lake Michigan. Then the region's first European residents made Milwaukee one of their main fur trading posts.

Barry Jenkins is one of the major American filmmakers at work today. His Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad was added to the Criterion Collection on Tuesday.

Tuesday marks 50 years since The Exorcist came out and shocked audiences with its depiction of a possessed 12-year-old girl. Its release kicked off an obsession with films about demonic possession.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. The highly sought-after Ivory-billed Woodpecker was expected to be on that list. But due to accumulating evidence possibly proving the bird persists in certain Southern bottomland forests, Ivorybills were given a temporary stay.

A day on the lake is a classic summer activity in Arkansas. With so many public-use lakes across the state, there are countless opportunities for fun. But natural bodies of water can be dangerous if people don’t take the correct precautions. Lifejackets might be the first thing that comes to your mind regarding lake safety, but as Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis reports, swimmers in any natural body of water should remain aware of microbial threats as well.

Sing Sing, a maximum security prison in New York, hosted its first film festival. With the help of the Marshall Project, a jury of incarcerated men weighed the merits of documentaries.