The film House of Sand and Fog tells the story of an Iranian immigrant whose legal struggle over a home purchase escalates into tragedy. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
Wendt got his start in Chicago's The Second City improv comedy troupe. He went on to earn six Primetime Emmy nominations for his role as a lovable barfly on Cheers.
A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had some testy exchanges with Democrats in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He defended big cuts and the Trump administration's decision to dismantle USAID.
Leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter the region.