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Rob Riggle is best known as one of the comedy "news" correspondents on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. But he recently earned a promotion in his other job: as a Marine reservist. Riggle says the role, which has taken him into combat zones, "has definitely served my comedy."

NPR's Chris Joyce reports on the recent discovery of the first representation in art of the female form.

Picturesque Agnes Scott College has long been a favored site for film shoots. But when production for a bad-boy comedy arrived at this women's college, it spawned student and alumnae backlash.

The Sopranos star debuts as the star of Nurse Jackie Monday on Showtime and says her character's life is complicated. "There are many aspects of it that are mutually exclusive," she says. Like being a nurse and popping many, many little red pills.

After 16 years as the host of the Late Night show, Conan O'Brien moves his act an hour earlier. TV critic David Bianculli reviews O'Brien's premiere as host of The Tonight Show.

Kathie Lee Gifford will be on our program next week. I gather from some messages I received that some people just don't think NPR and Kathie Lee Gifford belong in the same sentence.

Valentino is a star who shines in the firmament of haute couture — he dressed Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gwyneth Paltrow. But the story of the man is really the story of a relationship that's lasted throughout his 45-year career.

Havana-born writer Achy Obejas returns to her native city with a novel called Ruins. It's a bittersweet portrait of Cuban life in the mid-1990s.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit Monday comes amid criticism of Germany for its handling of Russia's troop build-up along Ukraine's border.

Salem Hospital in Oregon has been crowded for weeks. Patients are doubled up in rooms. Nurses experience panic over the workload and sadness over the unvaccinated. Then they get back to work.