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Three New Yorkers want to help people with AIDS by raising $15,000 for the nonprofit HousingWorks. If they get enough donations, they promise to watch the box-office bomb Cats for 24 hours straight.

Donald Trump is exploring a presidential campaign. He challenged President Obama to provide his birth certificate. Trump promised to release his own. Trump did release a paper from a New York hospital, but officials tell Politico it's not the official document. Politico mockingly goes on to question Trump's nationality.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. His story is the subject of a new documentary: A Father's Promise.

Weekend Edition essayist Diane Roberts visited England recently, where she found some of her favorite doughnuts in the unlikeliest of places: Britain's famously hoity-toity department store, Harrods. The Southern native took one bite of the sublime confection -- OK, several bites -- and felt right at home...

Music critic Milo Miles reviews two new collections of tunes from the late Latin pioneers Tito Rodriguez and Tito Puente. The two were rivals on the bandstand of the Palladium, the epicenter of the 1950s mambo craze.

The new documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone uses various artists to voice Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur. Director Curt Worden and biographer Joyce Johnson discuss the beat poet's relationship with the California coast.

Nevins, 80, has some 1,500 credits to her name, and is best known for running HBO's prestigious documentary division. "At my age, most people would think that I would be out to pasture," she says.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced a public safety power shutoff over the weekend as some of the strongest winds and driest conditions of this year's fire season sweep through the region.

The Zanzibar-born novelist is known for his postcolonial works, examining refugee life in England and the effects of empire. He is the first Black person awarded the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993

After 17 days of Olympic competition that was far different than usual due to COVID-19 restrictions, Tokyo celebrated its closing ceremony Sunday with artistic performances and a light show.