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The actor's latest character is no Batman. In The Flowers of War, Bale plays a Dust Bowl refugee caught in one of the most horrific events in China's modern history, the Nanjing Massacre. Bale says the role was a rare opportunity to experience a completely different filmmaking culture.

Democrats in Congress are pushing this week for a bailout of Detroit's Big Three automakers, but there are signs they may not have enough votes. Some Americans blame the companies for their own problems. Others warn that a bankruptcy would only deepen the current recession.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says the most remarkable aspect of Colm Toibin's new novel is its heroine, a "plain Jane" Irish immigrant with limited options.

The idea of an "affordable manicure" was once an oxymoron. That's before Vietnamese immigrants arrived in the U.S. and cornered the market for inexpensive nail-care salons. The industry has offered a path to self-sufficiency for many Vietnamese-Americans in California and around the nation.

The Trump administration announced Friday that it will delay tariffs on cars and auto parts imports while it negotiates trade deals with Japan and the European Union.

Next week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol finally arrives in paperback, along with Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's memoir, journalist Fareed Zakaria's update on the post-American world, journalist Annie Jacobsen's look inside a top secret U.S. military base, and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's true tale of the survivors in a WWII plane crash.

As the not-guilty verdict set in, protesters took to the streets and thinkers asked the big questions.

Snowmass Base Village will open this ski season, despite a couple hiccups in development. Snowmass Town Council’s concerns center around Building 6, which…

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Ukrainian politician Volodymyr Omelyan, who left his job and family, and has been fighting against the Russians on the frontlines for the last six months.

Vice President Harris gave her first interview since jumping into the presidential race just a little over a month ago. Here's what we learned.