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Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacle tackles the life of Elvis Presley, as filtered through his shady longtime manager.

Since the 19th century, the French city of Grasse has been the center of the world's perfume industry. It developed as a response to Grasse's medieval tanning industry –- which stank.

States can now enforce laws that criminalize abortion. But a Texas law that outsources enforcement to civilians could have legal immunity that other laws don't, pushing more states to follow suit.

A Reddit user claimed that while visiting a friend's house in Sweden, he had to sit in another room while the family ate dinner. The story ignited a conversation about how the rest of the world eats.

Two years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. Now there's talk that we may be approaching a new stage for SARS-CoV-2. Let's unpack the word "endemic."

Payments on federal student loans have been paused for two years, and the Biden administration appears to be considering extending the pause beyond May.

Friends, fans and an extended family that includes former students — and his daughter, NPR's Nina Totenberg — gather Tuesday night in Boston to celebrate violinist and teacher Roman Totenberg's 95th birthday. His career has taken him from Warsaw to Moscow to Berlin to Paris — and finally to Boston, where he's been a teacher for more than 40 years.

Writer and commentator S. Pearl Sharp offers an audio essay about her experience as a fly on the wall at a recent meeting of the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere, an all-white organization that is dedicated to understanding feelings about race.

Next week marks the 60th anniversary of Germany's surrender in World War II. During the weeks leading up to the surrender, Allied soldiers liberated Nazi concentration camps across Europe and reporters soon brought the full story of the Holocaust to the world. Day to Day presents excerpts of broadcasts made six decades ago by war correspondents viewing the camps for the first time.

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has taken a heavy emotional toll on people throughout the Gulf Coast region. In Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans, an apparent increase in the number of suicide attempts is one sign of the psychological strain. We have the second of a series of reports on mental health after the storm.