The annual event pits some of the trading card and video game’s most seasoned players against each other — and it demonstrates how Pokémon has maintained its grip on pop culture.
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Can young Americans still have a better life than their parents? We want to know
For many Gen Z and millennial Americans, concerns about finances and the economy can feel ever present. NPR wants to know how economic barriers are affecting you and your political views.
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China’s Xi and India’s Modi vow to resolve border differences at meeting in Tianjin
Modi is on his first visit to China since relations between the two countries deteriorated after Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in deadly border clashes in 2020.
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Musicians show support for longtime Utah violinist detained by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested John Shin, who has played with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West. The Department of Homeland Security cited his 2019 DUI conviction as the reason.
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139 days: 3 Scottish brothers set a record for fastest row across the Pacific
Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean completed the fastest unsupported row across the Pacific, arriving in Cairns, Australia, on Saturday. They rowed over 9,000 miles non-stop from Peru.
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Photos: Mother Nature must be really annoyed at our fakery
A polar bear in a zoo, a hotel balcony overlooking elephants, a tree mural shrouded by haze: They’re images from the new book The Anthropocene Illusion, about the way humans are remaking Earth.
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Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy for 2nd time in less than a year
The budget carrier filed for fresh bankruptcy protection months after emerging from a Chapter 11 reorganization. The airline said it plans to keep flying as usual during the restructuring process.
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His D.C. church was robbed, but this pastor says the National Guard isn’t needed
NPR’s Scott Simon talks to a pastor and parishioners at East Washington Heights Baptist Church about crime in Washington, D.C., and whether the National Guard deployment helps or hurts the city.
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No one hates you like someone who used to love you. ‘The Roses’ misses that
The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy.
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Queen’s Classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ finds a new voice in Zulu
It’s one of the most famous rock songs ever – Bohemian Rhapsody— and now, for the first time, it’s been translated with Queen’s blessing – into Zulu.
