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12-11-19 12:30 PM newscast

Philadelphia is becoming the next big city to stop collecting fines for overdue books at its public libraries. The hope is that the new policy will drive an uptick in daily visitors.

Adam Sandler makes a bid for a Best Actor Oscar in Uncut Gems, a thriller about a jeweler who makes terrible choices, from writer-directors Benny and Josh Safdie.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with director Luke Lorentzen about his new documentary Midnight Family which follows a family working in the private ambulance industry.

Anyone can get on the ballot in the U.K. if they pay 500 pounds.

Officials at Lithuania's Vilnius airport confiscated banned items from passengers. But instead of throwing them out, the airport decided to put them to use for the holiday.

Comments about the $5.6 billion sale of BP’s assets to Hilcorp will squeak in before today’s 5 p.m. deadline. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has…

Bernardine Evaristo's nuanced and entertaining Booker Prize-winning novel is told from the point of view of 12 British women of color — all just a few degrees of separation apart from each other.

Actor Danny Aiello died on Thursday at age 86. He was best known — and received an Oscar nomination — for playing the pizza parlor owner in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.

All the Democratic candidates who have qualified for next week's debate in Los Angeles are threatening to boycott over a labor dispute at the university hosting the event.