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Late last year, Rick Springfield reprised his role as Dr. Noah Drake on the long-running ABC daytime drama General Hospital. Springfield talks about why he came back, and his new album.

Instead of adding hot water to brown dust with freeze-dried marshmallows, NPR's Steve Inskeep decided to learn how to do hot chocolate right. Pastry chef David Guas walks Inskeep through his recipe for Mexican hot chocolate, which features vanilla beans, almond extract and cinnamon.

Mad cow disease and related illness are thought to be spread by an infectious protein, not a germ. But some prominent scientists don't agree. NPR's Richard Harris travels to a National Institutes of Health lab in Montana, where a group of scientists have been trying for several decades to get to the bottom of brain-wasting diseases.

The shakeup in Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office could signal a tougher stance on school funding.The state spending plan requires adoption of a new…

The film premieres on HBO Saturday.

The Air National guardsman is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, according to the Department of Justice.

After a tough year for the film industry, we were lucky to still get to see some great movies this year. We talk about the best ones and unpack what we think is ahead in 2021.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener, Karen Brock, and puzzlemaster, Will Shortz.

As the Earth warms up, rising sea levels will increase the threat of storm surges and flooding. In some places, that will make exisiting problems worse. Venice, Italy, offers a glimpse at what may lie ahead. A major engineering project aims to protect it from the rising sea, but most Venetians seem to take high water in stride.

For Brig. Gen. William Grimsley, down time for reading does not necessarily mean a break from the battlefield. The deputy commanding general of the Army's fourth infantry division tends to choose heavy nonfiction about combat, wars and world history when he reads. He shares his summer reading list.