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The music of the movies has long transported audiences to other worlds. With the Academy Awards only weeks away, NPR's resident film music buff Andy Trudeau returns for his 10th year as a guide to the film score Oscar nominees.

French planes bombed the Islamic State's self-declared capital Raqqa in Syria this week. The U.S. gave them a target list. Steve Inskeep talks to Anne Bernard of The New York Times, who's in Beirut.

The musical has some of the best-known songs in Broadway history, but it originally had other tunes that almost no one knows. Some of those songs were recently performed for the first time in decades.

It's take two for Bill Cosby's criminal sexual assault trial. This time, there's a new jury, new defense team, new evidence and a new era of accountability for men accused of sexual misconduct.

Boston art collector David Genser donated a print by artist James Rosenquist to Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum. Amid a budget crisis, the university has announced it will close the museum and sell off its collection. Other donors and art enthusiasts are not happy about this decision. Genser shares his views.

Every August Parisians leave and the tourists head to the French capital. But this year, the tourism industry is hurting, even as some Parisians enjoy a rare chance to explore their city.

Hurricane Matthew hit the southern coast of Haiti Tuesday, hammering the country with category four winds. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Joanna Cherry, chief medical officer at a hospital in Port-Au-Prince, who says that in addition to trauma, the spread of cholera worries her most.

Alabama has lifted a moratorium on executions after a series of botched lethal injections. The state will resume executions even as some say it is still not ready to do so.

Playwright Harold Pinter came into prominence at a time when Tennessee Williams' and Arthur Miller's plays were being performed in the U.S. and Bernard Shaw and the Boulevard Comedies dominated London's West End. In contrast to the work at the time, Pinter's plays dealt with the theater of menace.

A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 1,000 people. Rescue attempts are made more difficult as the quake's epicenter is in the rugged Atlas Mountains.