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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ayanna Pressley, Democratic candidate for Massachusetts' seventh congressional district, about the surge of black women running for office this year.

Cleveland International Film Festival screens “Leonard Soloway’s Broadway”directed by Jeff Wolk (Hawk House Productions) this week. The documentary tells the story of the Shaker Heights native, now 90, who spent seven decades working in theater, mostly as a producer.

Tim Ryan rallied voters in his hometown over the weekend, garnering support for his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. The nine-term Congressman spoke…

The famed Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California is under scrutiny after a spike in thoroughbred deaths. Santa Anita hosted its biggest race day of the year this past weekend.

In 2010, WikiLeaks posted 250,000 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. David Greene talks to Harold Koh, the then-legal adviser to the State Department who urged the organization not to publish them.

Jamie Summitt was eating dinner with her family when her baby monitor started to move. Which was weird, because everyone who was supposed to have control of the camera was in the room with her.

Nearly 13 percent of Philadelphia's population doesn't have a bank account — more than double the regional average. The city has just become the first big city in the U.S. to ban cashless businesses.

Amy Schneider’s win streak on the game show "Jeopardy!" ended last night. The Dayton native won 40 straight games and 1.3 million dollars, making her one of the best players of all-time

The Senate Majority PAC, the main source of outside funding for Democratic Senate candidates, hasn't spent a dime on the campaign of Tim Ryan in Ohio and doesn't plan to. Ryan is taking it as another sign that he isn't dependent on either party.

Theatrical clowning duo Bill Irwin and David Shiner haven't shared the spotlight onstage since the late 1990s. Now, with a collaborative theater project running at off-Broadway's Signature Theatre, they bring their zany brand of participatory slapstick to a new generation.