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Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been facing pushback at home. It all escalated with national groups threatening not to support her over her voting rights and filibuster stances.

In hospitals, it's standard for nurses to work a 12-hour shift. But research shows that may not be such a good idea for patients — or nurses.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with veteran journalist Carlos Dada, founder of El Faro newspaper, about his latest reporting from Honduras.

The U.S. Department of State has been vowing for years to make its workforce look like the country itself. But the Government Accountability Office says the department lacks diversity.

Lars von Trier's Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as sisters who undergo a psychological transformation as disaster approaches. Critic David Edelstein says the film is a sublime fusion of form and content with a truly Wagnerian climax. (Recommended)

In a Disney Store in Southern California, displays include playful child-size mannequins that encourage shoppers to interact with the merchandise.

Fresh Air's film critic says Adam Shankman's candy-colored teeny-bopper parable feels fatuously energized, with the songs all blaring at one manic pitch and a heroine whose delusional optimism has peaked by the end of the opening number.

Considered by many the greatest living choreographer, Merce Cunningham's career began with Martha Graham and spans 60 years of innovations in dance and music. At 87, Cunningham is still creating new works and he remains on the leading edge of dance.

The teenage Russian athlete landed one of the hardest jumps in figure skating — one that is so difficult, no other woman ever performed it at an Olympics before — and then she did it a second time.

Director Edgar Wright and actor-writer Simon Pegg came to prominence in England with their TV sitcom Spaced, and made a worldwide splash with the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. Their latest collaboration, a parody of Hollywood police shoot-em-ups called Hot Fuzz, is set in a buccolic English village where things just aren't the way they seem.