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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Demi Moore's Golden Globes win, Funny Story by Emily Henry, the film Hard Truths, and more.

Outgoing FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has rejected petitions to rebuke four local TV stations. She says they were efforts to punish broadcast networks' coverage of presidential politics.

As Latin America endures its worst moment in the pandemic, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with journalists Dan Collyns in Peru and Nicolle Yapur in Venezuela about the spread of COVID-19 in each country.

A precise record of the last major reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles can be found in ancient trees. Researchers say this event 42,000 years ago had a huge impact on the planet and ancient humans.

In recent weeks, you've likely heard a lot about rare-earth substances with hard-to-pronounce names, but experts warn that the shortage of another crucial metal, copper, could be just as concerning.

In Iraq, six years after the ISIS genocide against the Yazidi minority, survivors are still trying to find bodies of their loved ones. U.N. investigators are exhuming mass graves.

Arianna Huffington says readers need more positive news coverage, so her site is launching an effort focused on good stories. Their shareability may make "What Works" a smart business move, too.

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.

Two weeks ago, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain found himself fending off reports of sexual harassment published in the Washington political newspaper, Politico. He said there was "nothing else there to dig up." That was, predictably, not the end of the story.

Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they're protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.