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Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for NPR's Investigations team and an occasional guest host for some of NPR's national shows.

Divine spoke to Terry Gross in 1988 about his most memorable film credits, including his role as the woman who wins the title of "Filthiest Person Alive" in the John Waters' film Pink Flamingos.

Sacré bleu! In this final round, every answer is a commonly-used French phrase.

This music parody is not for the lactose intolerant, as contestants guess which cheese musician Jonathan Coulton is singing about.

Essential Tremors talks to musicians and other creative people about the music that shaped them. In the debut episode, hosts Matt Byars and Lee Gardner…

The field is 85% white and predominantly male.

Ahead of Tuesday's primary vote, Sen. John Edwards is in Madison, Wis., trying to drum up support and votes. Edwards is running a distant second in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, behind frontrunner Sen. John Kerry. Hear NPR's John McChesney.

Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly were accused of playing key roles in a traffic nightmare on the George Washington Bridge back in September 2013.

Organizers of the August political convention say that they may limit the number of people in the 19,000 seat arena and require masks but emphasize there are no plans to postpone the event.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast Monday, which appears to have landed in Japan's maritime economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials say.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Florida's capital punishment sentencing process is unconstitutional because it allows judges, not juries, to decide whether to impose the death penalty.

The shooting took place at Club Blu Bar and Grill, which was reportedly holding an all-ages event.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy is introducing a bill to overhaul the way the National Security Agency collects telephone data under the Patriot Act.

The official says there's evidence that the New Jersey governor knew about politically motivated lane closures as they were happening.

In 1962, Marvel Comics introduced the character of Spider-Man — a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider who becomes a vigilante crime fighter. It took only a few years for the superhero, created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, to become a sensation in comic books and in a TV cartoon series. In 2002, director Sam Raimi brought him to the screen with blockbuster results. Now comes Spider-Man 3 — which, at $300 million to $350 million dollars, is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made.

After more than a century, the gunfight that made lawman Wyatt Earp famous continues to draw more than half a million tourists to the dusty Arizona town each year.

The show was suddenly moved to another venue. Chappelle has received criticism over the last few years for his jokes aimed at the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.

A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned violent Saturday, with a vehicle plowing into the crowd. Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy reacts to the incident.

For six decades Amos explored race and gender in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died at 83 from complications of Alzheimer's but she knew that the Georgia Museum of Art show was in the works.

On Tuesday, the Mormon Church announced it would end a 100-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. Mormon boys were automatically signed up to be part of the Boy Scouts, and church members made up 20 percent of membership.